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{.........} in MSWord?

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moontho

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Jun 4, 2003
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Hi.

Does anyone know what {.......} either side of a word means in Word? It seems to be hidden text as it's not printing, but it's making formatting a document a nightmare. It stays there even when all formatting marks are hidden.

Many thanks

Thom
 
Hi Thom,
Fields are usually surrounded by those types of brackets, i.e., {..} An example of a field of this type could be a date or a Table of Contents entry.

If it is a field, it becomes visible when the user hits the Alt + F9 combination, which is a toggle switch so if you hit that same combination again, the fields should be invisible and formatting/pagination should return to normal.
HTH,

Best,
Blue Horizon [2thumbsup]
 
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