You are filling in a protected form. That's the way form fields work. You
could unlink all the text with Ctrl+Shift+F9, but I'm not sure there's any
guarantee that you wouldn't lose data.
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"mscertified" wrote in message
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Thanks for the response.
When I press Shift-F9, all of the highlighted text disappears to be
replaced
by {FORMTEXT } so there is still no way for me to work on individual
words.
Some of the text was entered by me so obviously it got merged with
something
else it should not have. Is there any way to get rid of this and just have
it
revert back to normal text that can be edited?
Thanks.
"Lene Fredborg" wrote:
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.