[Peter Jamieson]

1. try switching off field highlighting in Tools|Option|View.

2. if you are in Word 2002 (and possibly 2003) and you are printing from
Normal view, try switching to Print Layout view (on the View menu) and see
if that makes any difference.

Peter Jamieson

"T. Brown" T. wrote in message
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I am hoping someone can help me on this. When I put together a merged
letter
it works fine. All of the merged information appears in a gray box.
Next,
when I am attempting to print the letter the gray shading will also print.
I
have tried everything to get the gray not to print. Can anyone help me on
this, please? Thank you.