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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Word 2007
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Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Word 2007

by Faithe Wempen, Nicholas Chase, Kathy Jacobs, Karen McCall, Joyce J. Nielsen, Patrick Schmid
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1104 pages
30h 27m
English
Que
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Chapter 20. Working with Fields

In this chapter

Understanding Fields 632

Inserting Fields 634

Updating Fields 637

Finding and Moving Between Fields 639

Converting Fields to Plain Text 639

Selecting the Right Field 640

Formatting Fields 648

Nesting Fields 652

Troubleshooting 653

Understanding Fields

Fields are the often-underappreciated placeholders that work behind the scenes in a document. They help perform the magic involved with many of the most powerful features in Word, such as mail merging, indexing, automatic generation of tables of contents, automatic figure numbering, cross-referencing, page numbering, and more.

There are many different types of fields, each with a specific purpose, but they break down into three main categories. Fields ...

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