It's a MacroButton field. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...acroButton.htm

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"Paul Mayers" Paul wrote in message
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I have seen colleagues use a label in grey text within a table cell which
tells the writer what to imput in that cell. It will not print and is
written over simply by clicking the cursor onto it and writing over. How
is
this done?

eg

a cell will have date written in it in the grey text. once it is clicked
on it can be overwritten with the date - particularly useful on a
letterhead