In Word, click on Tools | Options | View | uncheck the "Hidden text" box
| OK.

Welshwoman wrote:

Here is an example of what I'm seeing. This is a section heading in a manual:
3.1.1 Dispatcher Changing Voice Request to Pending Request Procedure
{ XE "Changing Voice Request to Pending Request Procedure" } { XE "How Do
I?: Voice Request to Pending Request Procedure" }

The first part is the heading, which I want - the text in the brackets is
what I don't want.

I followed the help instructions for hiding text (Format menu, click Font,
click the Font tab, select the Hidden check box), but it hasn't changed
anything. I found that I could physically delete the text in the brackets,
but that's time-intensive - I will need to do it several hundred times.

And I still don't understand why these codes are there or how they got
there. Please continue to diagnose or enlighten.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:


If they're TC or XE fields, they're formatted as Hidden text, so the usual
Alt+F9 toggle doesn't work for them; you have to hide Hidden text instead.

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"Welshwoman" wrote in message
...

I'm having a recurring problem with (1) field codes just appearing in a

Word

document and (2) not being able to turn them off.

The field codes are mostly attached to headings, although they sometimes

are

attached to other text.

I cannot find anything in the help files that tells me how to turn off or
remove these. They show up on the screen only - they don't show up when

the

document is printed.

My questions:
1. How did these field codes get into my document?
2. Could they be related to sharing files among users with different
versions of Word (I have 2003, but some of my colleagues are using an

earlier

version).
3. Most important: how do I turn the wretched things off?