highlight all fields in Word

Hi,

I want to highlight all the fields in my word document so that I can easily find them and edit them.

Now I can only use Ctrl+A to select all and I will see that all fields have shading. But if I click in the document ,then they will disappear as I don't select all now.

So I want to know if there is a way to always highlight all fields so that I can check them? Thanks.

 

There are a lot of ways to do that. For example:

1. Open "Word Options", and in "Advanced", set the“Field shading” option as “Always”.

2. Use“Find”Function, just use “^d”to find all fields and choose to highlight them .

3. Use VBA. Below is a macro I find.

Code:

Sub ShowFieldsInDoc()
  Dim objField As Field
  Dim objDoc As Document
  Dim strCodeText As String
  Set objDoc = ActiveDocument
  With objDoc
    For Each objField In .Fields
      If objField.Type = wdFieldRef Or wdFieldPageRef Then
        objField.Select
        Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
      End If
      If objField.Type = wdFieldHyperlink Then
        objField.Select
        Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight
      End If
    Next objField
  End With
End Sub

More details you can see at

https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/3-quick-ways-find-fields-word-document/

Hope it heps.