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09-05-2011, 05:45 AM

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What you have is a FORMTEXT field which is shaded. If you want to get rid of it, just select all of the shaded text, cut it to the clipboard, and then click Home tab | Paste | Paste Special, and choose to paste as "Unformatted Text."

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