It sounds as if the text is part of a macrobutton field. Try this:
While the text is selected, press Shift+F9 - this toggles the field codes so
that you see the code of the field instead of the result of the field. Do you
now see something like the following?:
{ MacroButton NoMacro [the text you see as the field result] }
If that is correct, select the words you want to italicize and apply italic.
Press Shift+F9 to toggle field codes again (select the field and press F9 to
update the field if it does not automatically display your changes).
Shift+F9 toggles the field codes of selected fields. Alt+F9 toggles the
field codes of all fields in the document.
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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
"mscertified" wrote:
My terminology may be a bit off as I'm not a heavy Word user. I have to
modify some text in a form. Whenever I click on a word several words get
selected. I only need to italicize two of the words, but cannot see any way
to just select those words? Somehow a series of words is 'connected'. They
appear grayed in the form. How do I get around this? There may be macros
involved as parts of the form are 'protected' but not the bit I want to
change (I don't think).
Thanks.