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What are the areas in square brackets [ ]?
Can anyone tell me what the areas with the square brackets [ ] and Insert Area text are? They act very odd when inserting text around them and are fiddly to delete.
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Was this possibly created by a third party program like Wordperfect, OfficeLibre or OpenOffice?
They look like fields, like bookmarks, or Content Controls, but are not. If you are trying to find a way to easily insert prompts, look at MacroButton Prompt Add-In as well as Content Controls. Repeating Data Using Document Properties Content Controls and Other Mapped Content Controls |
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I'm actually trying to remove these from a 10-page document which has about 50 instances of this. If I try to use find & replace and just replace each instance with nothing, it leaves the square brackets behind.
Any other ways to get rid of them all quickly? Maybe even VBA code? |
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I don't know what they are. I suspect that the document was converted from a different program.
They can be manually deleted although it won't be fun. Go to the space before them, select to the space after, delete, and add a space back. |
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