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"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

You are not executing the merge. Rather all that you are doing is printing
a preview of the result. If you execute the merge, there will be NO fields
in the resulting document and hence they will not appear shaded.

If you want to persist with printing a preview of the results, select
Options from the Tools menu and then go to the View tab and set the field
shading control to Never.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"David Dolbec" David wrote in message
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Office 2003 professional
I created a standard word document with merge fields from an access
database.
The merge fields appear with a gray shading. When I print preview they
still
show gray and when I print the gray shading prints.
The setting in Tools/options/view/field shading is set to never.

This is not a form; just a document.

Office 2000 does not show the shading but that is at a different location
so
I have to use Office 2003. Is there a bug in 2003?

David



I believe he IS correctly merging - not just trying to print the preview - because I have just experienced exactly the same behaviour. And like the later poster - the only way to solve the problem was to create a new main document for some inexplicable reason. And although I have seen many people say the shading does NOT print, believe me, it did! Wasted heaps of ink as it was a big merge and almost finished before I saw what it was doing!