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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2007Field codes in Word 2003
We have two users to the same machine. For one user (administrator) field codes work fine, but if the other user tries to insert autotext (filename and path) all that's displayed are the field codes. Toggle field codes switches between curly brackets etc or filename/p between empty boxes. Within a header trying to Insert filename and path also displays filename/p between empty boxes but there is no toggle field codes option. They're not "really" field codes. The user may not have understood how to put them in. Delete what they have and use Insert>Field... from the menu to re-insert them. Cheers  SignatureJohn McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer, McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs +61 4 1209 1410, <mailto:john@mcghie.name> mailto:john@mcghie.name > We have two users to the same machine. For one user (administrator) field > codes work fine, but if the other user tries to insert autotext (filename [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > header trying to Insert filename and path also displays filename/p between > empty boxes but there is no toggle field codes option. Afraid not! I've logged into this machine both as me (administrator) and as the user. When I log in as me it works fine, when I log in as the user it doesn't, and the codes were entered in the same way on both occasions! But thanks for the suggestion. > They're not "really" field codes. The user may not have understood how to > put them in. Delete what they have and use Insert>Field... from the menu to [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > header trying to Insert filename and path also displays filename/p between > > empty boxes but there is no toggle field codes option. The obvious questions: does it only happen for this user? does it only happen on this machine? In any case I would probably follow http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm even though it doesn't describe the specific problem you are seeing. (NB, you're in a /Mac/ Word group here...) Peter Jamieson > Afraid not! I've logged into this machine both as me (administrator) and > as [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> > between >> > empty boxes but there is no toggle field codes option. OK, NOW I'm confused :-) The AutoText one is easy: hopefully you have separate Normal templates for Administrator and User (you better have!!) so any given autotext that may be present in the Normal template for one user will come up blank (not found) in the other. However: Filename is a special case: that is present in any default Template (it's a built-in). So if you replace the user's Normal template, the Filename autotext should appear. (I never bother: there's no need for an AutoText for that, I just insert the Filename field directly). Of course, the document must have been saved or the file name itself won't exist. The fact that { Filename /p } is being displayed indicates that the document is showing field CODES not field RESULTS. But if the field then becomes blank when you toggle field codes OFF, that indicates that the file name is not populated. This document HAS been saved, right? My problem is that I am sure you have already tried both those solutions :-) <Clutching desperately at straws here> Has the document been anywhere near a PC version of Word that has "Remove personally identifiable information from the file on save" set to ON? If so, various fields will be populated with blank results. But Filename is NOT one of them... I really don't have a clue... Sorry! SignatureJohn McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer, McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs +61 4 1209 1410, <mailto:john@mcghie.name> mailto:john@mcghie.name > We have two users to the same machine. For one user (administrator) field > codes work fine, but if the other user tries to insert autotext (filename [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > header trying to Insert filename and path also displays filename/p between > empty boxes but there is no toggle field codes option. |
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