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I'm using Office 2007, fully patched
I get Word 2003 docs from various pharmaceutical companies and frequently in
the footer there is an inserted Date Field and right up against the right
side of the date are two characters le (lowercase L followed by lowercase E)
the le is formatted in italic in a slightly smaller font and I can select it
with the text or object selection tool but there is absolutely no way to
remove it. It can't be cut, dragged, backspaced, overtyped or deleted. The
ONLY work around I've found is to set the text color to white which is a
kludge but at least works or to save as RTF,close the document, open it, then
convert it which gets rid of the e and then allows me to select and delete
the l. Note that just saving as RTF and converting DOES NOT WORK. I have to
save as RTF, close the document, open the document, convert, then the e
mysteriously is gone but the l remains and I can delete it.
In 'normal' page layout it looks as follows:
7/27/09le (with le italic and in a slightly smaller font)
In Show field codes instead of their values mode:
{DATE \@ "M/D/YY"}le (le italic in slightly smaller font)
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I assume it's some sort of
Inserted Field bug.
I get Word 2003 docs from various pharmaceutical companies and frequently in
the footer there is an inserted Date Field and right up against the right
side of the date are two characters le (lowercase L followed by lowercase E)
the le is formatted in italic in a slightly smaller font and I can select it
with the text or object selection tool but there is absolutely no way to
remove it. It can't be cut, dragged, backspaced, overtyped or deleted. The
ONLY work around I've found is to set the text color to white which is a
kludge but at least works or to save as RTF,close the document, open it, then
convert it which gets rid of the e and then allows me to select and delete
the l. Note that just saving as RTF and converting DOES NOT WORK. I have to
save as RTF, close the document, open the document, convert, then the e
mysteriously is gone but the l remains and I can delete it.
In 'normal' page layout it looks as follows:
7/27/09le (with le italic and in a slightly smaller font)
In Show field codes instead of their values mode:
{DATE \@ "M/D/YY"}le (le italic in slightly smaller font)
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? I assume it's some sort of
Inserted Field bug.