Well, as the sentence you quoted says, you can't type or copy/paste the field braces. I can't see how you could interpret it to mean anything other than that you need to use Ctrl-F9 to create them. The note goes on to say much the same thing about the chevrons. Did you actually try doing as the note said???

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Paul Edstein
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