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Fields in Word are used as placeholders for data that might change in a document and for creating form letters and labels in mail-merge documents.

Fields in Word are used as placeholders for data that might change in a document and for creating form letters and labels in mail-merge documents.

Word inserts fields automatically when you use particular commands, such as when you insert a page number, when you insert a document building block such as a cover page, or when you create a table of contents. You can also manually insert fields to automate aspects of your document, such as merging data from a data source or performing calculations.

Source: https://support.office.com/

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How to do search and replace involving fields in Microsoft Word?

I have a Word document with fields of the reference variety, which occur in the form "[field].[field]"--in other words, there's a period between the two fields. I want to globally replace this with a space. Word offers the ^d special character to…
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Display date difference in MS Word field

I have an CV and would like to automatically update my age when opening. So, what formula should I insert in a MS Word field? Something like: {= {DATE} - {"01/01/1983"} }
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Distinguishing Table of Contents in Word document

Does anyone know how when programmatically iterating through a word document, you can tell if a paragraph forms part of a table of contents (or indeed, anything else that forms part of a field). My reason for asking is that I have a VB program that…
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Is it possible to use VBA functions in Word field codes?

I have a Word document with some functions. I want to access these functions in formula fields, but this was harder than anticipated. Let's say I have a function defined as Public Function Area(R As Double) As Double Area = 3.14 * R * R End…
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How do you substring a MERGEFIELD in Word?

This one has me puzzled. It seemed like an easy task, but the solution eludes me: - How do you substring a merge field in a Word template used for mail merging? For example, I have something like {MERGEFIELD barcodevalue} and I want to extract the…
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OpenXml SimpleField vs FieldCode

I have created a document template (Test1.docx file) which has several MERGEFields in it. When I open the template in xml, I see some of the fields as SimpleFields and some as FieldCodes. Now, if I make some changes to the template (like adding some…
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How do I display the previous month in a MS Word field?

I would like to learn how to display the name of the month before the current month in a Word 2003 document. I have tried over and over again to follow the instructions I found on the link below, but no matter what I try I get one of several…
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Primitive MailMerge using just delimited field names

Obviously the correct way for our app to generate a Word document based on a template is to encourage the admin users (who will look after the templates) to embed the correct merge fields or bookmarks in the template document. However in the past we…
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Weird characters in a Microsoft Word document won't export/can't be searched

I have a document which has been sloppily authored. It's a dictionary that contains cyrillic characters. Most of the dictionary is manageable, but I'm stuck with one thing I need help with. Words have accented letters in them and they're mostly…
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Word html format: insert a custom TOC via field code

I am generating Word docs from html. Basically, I build a file with html and save it as a .doc. Then I open it in Word and apply a template. All good so far. I would like to automatically generate a custom TOC via the HTML ie when I am building the…
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How do I display the next month in a Microsoft Word field?

I'm needing to display the name of the month after the current month in a Word 2003 document. It's fairly easy to display the current month: { DATE \@ "MMMM" } At the time of this writing, this displays: September What I'm wanting to display is…
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Mailmerge Field not always saved the same way in Word .docx

I have created a Word document with Word 2003 and inserted some MergeField via the GUI. I have saved it as a .docx by using Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats. Some Mergefields are stored as a…
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MS Word: INCLUDEPICTURE field code

Sorry, Google hasnt been very helpful. I have a Word Document which references jpeg pictures stored at a different path. I always instruct word to Link in the file and modify the field code as: {INCLUDEPICTURE \d"..\\Relative…
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Get text of selected field code in Microsoft Word using AppleScript

I'm making a Automator to jump from citation in Word to the reference software(Zotero). But I can't find a AppleScript to extract text of selected field code (the first step). The field code in Word is ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION…
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INCLUDEPICTURE use an alternate jpg if MERGEFIELD "filename".jpg is not valid

I keep track of hikes we do in an EXCEL spreadsheet. I use WORD to create journal pages using a lot of MERGEFIELDS. I have clean maps of parks. After we do a hike, I use an editor to draw a route on the clean map of where we hiked producing a route…
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