How to display/show or hide field codes in Word document?
Editing Field Code Strings. When a field code string is displayed in the document (Shift+F9), you can edit it manually just like any other text. The trick is knowing what to type. Many fields have fairly complex code strings with various properties and options.
Word insert field codes automatically when users use particular commands, and field codes are hidden by default. This tutorial will show you how to display and hide field codes in Word.
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Display or hide field codes in Word 2003
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Step 1: click Tools menu > click Options
Step 2: click View tab, check the Field codes in Show group to display the field codes in document.
Display or hide field codes in Word 2007/2010/2013
Step 1: in Word 2007, click Office icon , and then click Word Options;
in Word 2010/2013, click File tab , and then click Options.
Step 2: click Advanced, and then check Show field codes instead of their values to display field code in document.
Display or hide field codes with Kutools for Word
After you have Kutools for Word installed, you can quickly show or hide field codes in document.
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1. Please apply this utility by clicking Enterprise > Display Settings. See screenshot:
2. In Display Setting dialog, check Field Codes box, then click Close. All field codes in current document are displayed. See screenshot:
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- Hi, My word document shows the following codes. Can anyone help me to recover it back.
Thanks
Mohammad - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Great help, thanks so much!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.I open word file in word 2013 is open accurately but I open same file in word 2016 some field codes is scattered or not converted in field values.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Once I have saved my document with field codes showing in gray, I send it to another user. They cannot see the grayed fields without using the Advanced formatting. I don't want users to have to do this. Is there a solution to keep my formatting when someone else opens the file? Thanks.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you! Somehow, I activated this function to show codes instead of values, and I could not figure out how to de-activate it. Your simple solution worked. :)
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.In Word 2007 I cannot show the field code of an image linked to the document the same way as in word 2003
{ INCLUDE PICTURE '../images/phot1.png' MERGEFORMAT d}
Impossible to toggle from the value to the field code (Alt F9 doesn't function). Impossible to have a relative path.
Thank you - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank you so much. I must have turned this on accidentally, because suddenly all of my documents had HTML code in them. Now the documents are all clean again. :)
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.to simply view the field codes, toggle field codes ON/OFF using Alt+F9.
To view what the field codes meanings see:
https://support.office.com/en-za/article/Field-codes-in-Word-1ad6d91a-55a7-4a8d-b535-cf7888659a51- [quote name='MarkinID']to simply view the field codes, toggle field codes ON/OFF using Alt+F9. [/quote]
THANK YOU !! This is the most useful solution for me, ever !! - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.[quote name='MarkinID']to simply view the field codes, toggle field codes ON/OFF using Alt+F9. [/quote]
THANK YOU !! This is the most useful solution for me, ever !!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thank You Very Much...
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