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Stripping Field Codes
this gave me some relief but I have 267changes to make in the template
(Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this specific field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? "Chad DeMeyer" wrote: If you don't want to lose the information contained in the fields, select all and Ctrl+6 to unlink the fields, which converts them from fields to normal text. If you want to strip the information contained in the fields as well, instead do a global find and replace. Use "^d" for the find, which is the find expression for fields, and leave the replace with field blank, then click Replace All. Regards, Chad "ParaJoy" wrote in message ... Is there any way to strip a document of all field codes, other than showing all field codes and deleting them manually? Thanks! |
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Hi,
Try Ctrl-A then Ctrl-Shift-F9 - this should convert ALL fields to plain text. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Frustrated with fields and macros!!!!!!!" Frustrated with fields and wrote in message ... this gave me some relief but I have 267changes to make in the template (Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this specific field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? "Chad DeMeyer" wrote: If you don't want to lose the information contained in the fields, select all and Ctrl+6 to unlink the fields, which converts them from fields to normal text. If you want to strip the information contained in the fields as well, instead do a global find and replace. Use "^d" for the find, which is the find expression for fields, and leave the replace with field blank, then click Replace All. Regards, Chad "ParaJoy" wrote in message ... Is there any way to strip a document of all field codes, other than showing all field codes and deleting them manually? Thanks! |
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That worked great, however, it unlinked my table of contents, and everything
else that I did want... I reverted it back to the original doc as.... I have 267 SPECIFIC changes to make in the template (Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this SPECIFIC field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? do you know how to do that? "macropod" wrote: Hi, Try Ctrl-A then Ctrl-Shift-F9 - this should convert ALL fields to plain text. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Frustrated with fields and macros!!!!!!!" Frustrated with fields and wrote in message ... this gave me some relief but I have 267changes to make in the template (Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this specific field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? "Chad DeMeyer" wrote: If you don't want to lose the information contained in the fields, select all and Ctrl+6 to unlink the fields, which converts them from fields to normal text. If you want to strip the information contained in the fields as well, instead do a global find and replace. Use "^d" for the find, which is the find expression for fields, and leave the replace with field blank, then click Replace All. Regards, Chad "ParaJoy" wrote in message ... Is there any way to strip a document of all field codes, other than showing all field codes and deleting them manually? Thanks! |
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Try this instead:
1. Press Alt+F9 to display field codes. 2. Open the Find (not Replace) dialog. 3. Check the box for "Highlight all items found..." 4. In the "Find what" box, type "^19 MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations" (without the quotation marks; if you have no other MacroButton fields in the doc, you can stop after MACROBUTTON). Anything that includes ^19 (the code for an opening field brace) will select the entire field. 5. Click Find All. 6. Click on the title bar of the document to return focus to the document without deselecting the selected items. 7. Press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink the fields. Alternatively, you could use Find and Replace to find the fields and replace them with the text "Progressive Integrations," assuming that that's what they all say. Note that if the MacroButton fields have been used (someone has typed in them), then they've been converted to plain text already. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Frustrated with fields and macros!!!!!!!" ft.com wrote in message ... That worked great, however, it unlinked my table of contents, and everything else that I did want... I reverted it back to the original doc as.... I have 267 SPECIFIC changes to make in the template (Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this SPECIFIC field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? do you know how to do that? "macropod" wrote: Hi, Try Ctrl-A then Ctrl-Shift-F9 - this should convert ALL fields to plain text. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Frustrated with fields and macros!!!!!!!" Frustrated with fields and wrote in message ... this gave me some relief but I have 267changes to make in the template (Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this specific field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? "Chad DeMeyer" wrote: If you don't want to lose the information contained in the fields, select all and Ctrl+6 to unlink the fields, which converts them from fields to normal text. If you want to strip the information contained in the fields as well, instead do a global find and replace. Use "^d" for the find, which is the find expression for fields, and leave the replace with field blank, then click Replace All. Regards, Chad "ParaJoy" wrote in message ... Is there any way to strip a document of all field codes, other than showing all field codes and deleting them manually? Thanks! |
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Well, you did ask "Is there any way to strip a document of all field codes"!
If you want to do everything but the TOC, then select all of your document except for the TOC, then use Ctrl-Shift-F9. Otherwise, use Suzanne's method. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Frustrated with fields and macros!!!!!!!" ft.com wrote in message ... That worked great, however, it unlinked my table of contents, and everything else that I did want... I reverted it back to the original doc as.... I have 267 SPECIFIC changes to make in the template (Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this SPECIFIC field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? do you know how to do that? "macropod" wrote: Hi, Try Ctrl-A then Ctrl-Shift-F9 - this should convert ALL fields to plain text. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Frustrated with fields and macros!!!!!!!" Frustrated with fields and wrote in message ... this gave me some relief but I have 267changes to make in the template (Employment Manual Outline) and the field code, {MACROBUTTON DoFieldClick Progressive Integrations} creates a shaded field with the "Progressive Integrations" in it. I would like to globally convert this specific field/macro (all 267 of them) to just plan text.... is that possible? "Chad DeMeyer" wrote: If you don't want to lose the information contained in the fields, select all and Ctrl+6 to unlink the fields, which converts them from fields to normal text. If you want to strip the information contained in the fields as well, instead do a global find and replace. Use "^d" for the find, which is the find expression for fields, and leave the replace with field blank, then click Replace All. Regards, Chad "ParaJoy" wrote in message ... Is there any way to strip a document of all field codes, other than showing all field codes and deleting them manually? Thanks! |
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