Are you tracking changes, perhaps? In that case, note that many fields won't "behave" until you have accepted (or rejected) changes and turned off the tracking.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Perhaps I need to clarify my question:
If you do a search and replace operation, I have only found the ^d character for the search, and that finds any field, not only XE-fields. Can you specify the search parameter more, i.e. can you search for, for example, ^dXE?

Bengt