Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

A Closer Look at Field Formatting

In this section, you'll learn some advanced techniques for controlling how field results appear. Suppose that you've made an important point somewhere in a large report. It's so important that you've boldfaced it for emphasis. Now you want to use a field to insert that phrase into your executive summary. But in that context, where everything's important, you don't want it to be boldfaced.

Well, you could insert the field result and reformat it manually—but it would then revert to the bold formatting anytime you updated your fields. Or you could lock that field—but if you ever want to update the substance of the field, then what? Obviously, neither of these solutions is ideal. Fortunately, Word provides field ...