Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Printing Field Codes.
If you use fields in your documents to any extent, you may want to print a copy of your document with field codes showing instead of field results. To do this, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Print tab of the Options dialog box.
If you prefer, you can also make the setting change just before printing. Follow these steps:
Figure 2. The Print dialog box.
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2015-01-13 11:43:36
Alice Langley
I only want to print certain field codes. I select the ones I want and toggle field codes on, but when I print, the field codes do not print. How can I print just certain ones and not all?
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