Change field to text (Ctl+Shift+F9) not working?

[Ed]

I have autonumbering in a document. I tried Ctrl+A, the Ctrl+Shift+F9 to
change all the fields to static text, but it didn't work. Then I tried
selecting each field separately, and it still didn't work. What am I doing
wrong? (Word XP on Windows XP)

Ed

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Although these numbers *are* fields, this technique doesn't work on them.
Here's something that does, courtesy of Stefan Blom:

To convert autonumbering (paragraph/outline numbering and LISTNUM
fields) to plain text, do the following: Make sure the active
document is the one you want to convert. Then press ALT+F11 to
display the Visual Basic Editor. On the View menu, click
Immediate Window. In the Immediate Window, type

ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText

and press ENTER.

Note that if paragraph/outline numbering was applied with styles,
it isn't completely gone (CTRL+Q will bring it back!) unless you
also clear it from the style definitions.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Ed]

That was it! Thank you very much. I think I can make the editing staff
very happy with this!

Ed