Showing and hiding Field Codes in Microsoft Word
I can't believe I'm writing a blog post about Microsoft Word :)
The other day I opened a document, and where I expected to see generated fields like the Table of Contents, I saw strange keywords like:
{ STYLEREF Title \* MERGEFORMAT }
and:
{ TOC \o "1-2" \t "Appendix, 1" }
It took quite a bit of googling to discover that I could 'fix' this simply by pressing ALT+F9. It seems this is the keyboard shortcut to show or hide Field Codes - basically toggling between showing they keywords for these fields or the fields themselves.
Other common Field Codes are:
FILENAME MERGEFORMAT NUMPAGES STYLEREF HYPERLINK
and they're always surrounded by {} characters.
Now that I've written this I hopefully won't forget next time!
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