Word2016 "Backgroundshading" of fields

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Guys,
someone in the know, if it's possible / how to persuade Word2016 to use another means of marking a datafield? Default is some dark grey background, which collides awfully with the light grey used for marking text.
Any help greately appreciated!

[ic2]

Hello Karl,

Not sure, but is this the problem you are talking about:

https://superuser.com/questions/854609/ ... ds-in-word

Dick

[FFF]

Hi Dick,
thx, but no.
Take Word, enter something like myVar, hit Shift-F3. Hit Alt-F9 and you should see { DOCVARIABLE "myVar" }. The whole expression from brace to brace shows up dark grey shaded.
Hit again Alt-F9 and you'll see a tiny dash, again on a grey shaded rectangle, the size of one char.
What i want to change is primarily this darned "grey" - as MS chose to use light grey as marker, when you select some text by mouse or shift+cursor.
Work some hours on such documents and you want to kill the inventor...

[ic2]

Hello Karl,

Shift F3 goes through a number of capitalizations...But I inserted a field via the menu an think I know what you mean.

I found one thing which may help you a bit, not sure if that's enough: search for Page colour and select a different colour (even if it is only for entering field content).

And I found 1 link which seems to be VBA to change the form field colour, so that may help you as well.


https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mso ... 5c84683dc6

Dick

[FFF]

And I found 1 link which seems to be VBA to change the form field colour, so that may help you as well.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mso ... 5c84683dc6

Using VBA to change a marker color... Godness. Especially "...The advantage of using that shading however is that it does not print," is all a "MVP" has to say.
I read Robert about the doc-team at MS, but i can't help wondering about the level of the dev-team, or better, the guys which define the goals...
Searching at MS for "Changing merge Field background color" throws NO even distantly related answer in the first 20 results.
Why on earth doen't exist a setting "Select fields background color"?
Didn't they say, there's a team for user interface development?
Oh well... sorry for ranting

[Terry]

My copy of Word has Lightbulb "Tell me what you want to do" next to Help

Search for "Set Field Shading"

Does that help?

Terry

[FFF]

"No entry found"