Paste the field and then unlink it (Ctrl+Shift+F9).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
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Is there a simple way to extract the text contents from a field and
paste as text while retaining the formatting?
What works is selecting half the text, copy, paste. Select the other
half, copy, paste.
If I select it all and paste, I get the field against. I thought paste
special might work but has given me no joy.