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How to display/show or hide field codes in Word document?

Word insert field codes automatically when users use particular commands, and field codes are hidden by default. This tutorial will show you how to display and hide field codes in Word.

Display or hide field codes in Word 2003

Display or hide field codes in Word 2007/2010/2013

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Step 1: click Tools menu > click Options

Step 2: click View tab, check the Field codes in Show group to display the field codes in document.


arrow blue right bubble Display or hide field codes in Word 2007/2010/2013

Step 1: in Word 2007, click Office icon word07-officeicon , and then click Word Options;

in Word 2010/2013, click File tab word10-filetab , and then click Options.

Step 2: click Advanced, and then check Show field codes instead of their values to display field code in document.


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After you have Kutools for Word installed, you can quickly show or hide field codes in document.

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1. Please apply this utility by clicking Enterprise > Display Settings. See screenshot:

2. In Display Setting dialog, check Field Codes box, then click Close. All field codes in current document are displayed. See screenshot:

For more information, please visit: quickly show field codes in Word.


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Can Kutools display more of the field codes, that are not displayed by Microsoft Word's Alt+F9?

I would like to see the field codes for auto-numbered lists. I know that Microsoft Word does not treat them in this way and that I can't view them but presumably they must be generated by some sort of markup language that I can't see (even using Alt+F9).
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Hi, I switched off "show field codes" in Word option but when I convert to PDF it is showing again. How to switch off in PDF as well?
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Thank you very much, I have been looking for this answer a long time ago, I was getting crazy about this issue: no formulas, no table of content, etc. By the way, it work in Word 2016 as well, that's my case
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Hi, My word document shows the following codes. Can anyone help me to recover it back.

Thanks

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Great help, thanks so much!
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I open word file in word 2013 is open accurately but I open same file in word 2016 some field codes is scattered or not converted in field values.
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Once I have saved my document with field codes showing in gray, I send it to another user. They cannot see the grayed fields without using the Advanced formatting. I don't want users to have to do this. Is there a solution to keep my formatting when someone else opens the file? Thanks.
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Thank you! Somehow, I activated this function to show codes instead of values, and I could not figure out how to de-activate it. Your simple solution worked. :)
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In Word 2007 I cannot show the field code of an image linked to the document the same way as in word 2003 { INCLUDE PICTURE "../images/phot1.png" \MERGEFORMAT \d} Impossible to toggle from the value to the field code (Alt F9 doesn't function). Impossible to have a relative path. Thank you
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Good commnet but I don't see no any reaction since 4 years :(
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