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b0nkrates
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Dec 13, 2022

abbreviations

Hello community,

I m currently facing an issue with my abbreviations in my master thesis.  All my abbreviations are followed by the curly brackets containing the indices. I already tried all combinations of Ctrl+F9 (Shift+F, Ctrl+Shift+F9, Alt+F9). I also made sure, that I deactivated "show field codes instead of their values". I reinstalled word and the issue still appears. I tried it in a different word document and it still happens.

 

Thanks for the Help

 

Benjamin Sänger

 

 

office 365
word
  • Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP's avatar
    Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
    MVP
    Dec 13, 2022

    b0nkrates 

    Even though by default, XE fields are formatted as hidden text, it is not possible to turn off their display and if you go to the Backstage Print view, you will see that the XE fields are not visible and will not print.

    While I don't really recommend it, if you really want to hide them, you could use a macro containing the following code that will format the font used for them with the colour white and then uses an Advance field to move the following text to the left so that the space occupied by the XE field is "overwritten" by the following text.

    (You might ask why I developed the code?  It was developed in response to a user betting me that I could not hide XE fields.  The user in question welshed on the bet)

    ' Macro created 21 March 1999 by Doug Robbins to hide XE fields
'
Dim axe As Field
For Each axe In ActiveDocument.Fields
    axe.Select
    If Mid(Selection.Text, 3, 2) = "XE" Then
        RangeStart = Selection.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)
        Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
        RangeEnd = Selection.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)
        RangeLength = RangeEnd - RangeStart
        axe.Select
        Selection.Font.ColorIndex = wdWhite
        Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
        Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:= _
        "ADVANCE \l " & RangeLength & """, PreserveFormatting:=False"
    End If
    Next axe

     

  • Stefan_Blom's avatar
    Stefan_Blom
    MVP
    Dec 14, 2022
    You can turn off hidden text; this will also hide the XE fields. However, the next time you add an XE field, Word will redisplay nonprinting marks.

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