How to Toggle Field Codes Off or On in Microsoft Word

Can you advise how do you toggle field codes in Microsoft word 2010? I used to be able to right click over the field to edit text or toggle on and off. In 2010 it does not work? Thank you!

Man I needed this. After installing, then 1 hour later uninstalling EndNote X2, I was having some grief with the “Toggle codes” feature of MS Word 2010. All fixed now

How to Toggle Field Codes Off or On in Microsoft Word

GAWD….. fixed…….. thank you 🙂

Thans a lot for the information, it really was very helpful to me.
Good luck and have a nice day 🙂

Thank you so much, I was about to send the final document for review and accidentally turned on the field codes. Your solution worked for me, however Alt+F9 is better than Shift+F9 in Word 2010 because with Shift+F9 after you update the contents of table, it will put these field codes back in.

Thanks very much. I have a new computer with WORD 2010 and was going nuts trying to correct the problem.. I knew there had to be a simple solution, but just couldn’t find it until I reviewed your blog.

GREAT! Mike F Robbins you are a ROCK STAR!!!
Thank you for this solution.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for posting such a useful article. If only the mysterious powers at Microsoft still wrote online help systems that were actually helpful, as helpful as your blog.

I have another problem, and I bet you know the answer. I’m using Word 2010 and I need to be able to find my _broken_ hyperlinks. I broke them on purpose – I removed two chapters because those features got moved to a newer product we make. However, I still need to update the manual for what’s left of the old product. I don’t need to fix the broken hyperlinks. I just need to be able to find them efficiently so I can delete or rewrite the sentences they reside in. The document is 600 pages, so I’m hoping there’s an automated way to find only the broken hyperlinks.

Thanks in advance!

Thank you so very much. This had been driving me crazy!

Thanks so much u make ma life easy cse i was in trouble with toggle field codes almost for two months.

Thanks for clues, however it seems there is a bug in W2010 (as before). In some docs, where the linked elements are missing (e.g. because moved without the alinked docs folder), the place where link is broken does not respond to any try and remains with this bloody red cross.
the link actually exisit and can be updated, at this time it becomes possible to read the field code.
extremelly unpracticall since when word accepts toggling, a simple replace “wrong address ” “good address” would update all the links at once. I sep,t a lot of time with a “working copy” (toggling operates) to update a text-edited copy where links were changed to different folder!!!

Thank you very much. It worked.

thanks a ton,
ur solution has helped me to solve my problem related to toggle field codes !!!!!!!

Thanks…!

Thank you, your solution with Alt F9 saved my mind. It is so frustrating when you somehow turn something on and then can’t work out how to turn it off.

thanks – v. helfpul

Than you very much, it worked for me, Valeria from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thank you, I was struggling with this for months and today I managed to overcome this problem thanks to you. May God bless you, I’ve put into my favorites. Valeria from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Thankss it’s workss………………….. 🙂

It worked, Thank you very much.
🙂

Simple, easy explanation. {**THANK YOU!**}

thaks a lot the information related to toggle field codes on and OFF was very much helpfull

Many thanks; solved the problem immediately. Just got to find the gremlin who ticked the box in the first place!!!

How you create a default field code? For instance, I would like to have the page number spelled out not a numeric value. I know the field code “PAGE\*CardText\*FirstCap” but would like it to do that every time I have to add a page number instead of having to edit the field code for the page number. ANY HELP would be appreicated!!

I have a curious problem with field codes. About at the same time that Office 2013 was introduced field codes for indexes started displaying in the adobe acrobat files that I generate from Word 2010 using the save as pdf option.

For instance a text:
“through the fractional reserve system that is”
would become:
“through the fractional reserve system{ XE “fractional reserve system” } that is”
in the generated .pdf file.

I have checked that the field codes are not toggled on, and also made the additional checks as outlined above:
“Word Options>Advanced” in the “Show document content”
“Word Options>Advanced” in the “Print” section:

Because I had a similar problem with my Word 2007 when Office 2010 was introduced I was starting to suspect Microsoft was using some type of planned obsolescence. (That time equations suddenly failed to appear in my adobe acrobat files and were replaced with blank space. A problem that was fixed when I purchased the new edition of Office …)

However, I recently installed the same Word 2010 on a computer that I upgraded with a new motherboard for my son. On that computer everything works just fine and no field codes appear in the adobe acrobat generated files. (I have of course tried to reinstall Office 2010 on my own computer, but the error appears there immediately after the reinstall.)

Anyone out there with a clue as to what is going on?

For instance, is there any possibility that something should be changed in the registry for this error to disappear?

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Thanks Man!

I was almost going back to the 2010.

Saved my Life haha

Thank you so much, Mike! You literally saved my life with this simple fix. You’re amazing!

Thanks man you really help my….it was a nightmare to toggle off every time I opened the document I was working with

Thanks a lot Mike 🙂

Thank you very much ! It was very helpful !!!

Man, you made me happy! I am not sure how it happened, but the field codes were constantly toggled on. Thank You!!

Can someone explain why a “current page” of “total number of pages” field code is displayed as 1 of 1, and only updates in print preview or when you click on the footer?

Thanks. A great help!

Toggle problem solved… Great.. This helps me a lot…

Thank you for your efficient and easy answer

thanks to bring my word back to normal

we never got a channel guide. So, I wrote it out by channel number first then the channel name. I would like to change it in an alphabetically and keep the numbers in front.
Example have
203 the learning channel
604 abc

want to change
604 abc
203 the learning channel.

is this possible?
Microsoft Office 2007

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

You are the best!!!! Thanks a lot

You just saved me !!! I wad trying for ages to get rid of these codes on my word docuemnt … thanks !!!