Did you insert the braces using Ctrl+F9? They cannot be entered from the
keyboard. If you inserted the field correctly, make sure that "field codes"
is not checked on the Print tab of Tools | Options.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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ENVIROMNT: WinXP, Word 2003 ;
. GOAL: to have flnme print;
. APPRCH: entered { FILENAME \p } in docu;
. PROB: printed exactly that.

What's my mistake?