Things should now be working, assuming that you activated "Filling in forms" protection, of course.

As an alternative (which shouldn't be necessary, though), you can apply a unique paragraph style to the paragraph containing the text form field, and then insert { STYLEREF "style_name_here" } in place of the REF field.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional