Field Shading in a form/template

[Guest]

I recently build a simple template with fill-in fields. I had a problem with
the shading sticking after I saved the form and used it. I posted a question
here yesterday, and was given the following instructions to fix it:

"Try this: Open the template; make the field shading setting. Perform a
false edit in the file by inserting and promptly deleting a space or any
other character.
Save and close the file."

This worked for my template; however, when I copied the template form to two
other computers, and performed the above steps to get the shading to stay, it
only worked for one out of two.

How can I get it to stay on all computers?

Thanks,

Carol

 

[Guest]

On the computer where you don't have shading, try this:

Tools | Options | View | Shading | Always

I hope this has been helpful to you.

 

[Guest]

This was part of the steps that I performed originally; to turn Field Shading
to Always. After I do that, and follow the suggestion above, then save the
template, when I it as a template/form on the 2nd computer that I copied it
to, the document has lost all the shading except when clicking in the field.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Could be a settings corruption issue. Try this, to see if you can force Word
to rewrite that setting:

On the problem computer, open the template, change the shading setting to
Never, perform a false edit, then save & closed.

Repeat the above, setting the shading to Always.

Does that make it stick?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Field shading is a machine-specific setting. It sounds like the second
computer doesn't have the same Options settings--has "When selected"
instead.

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

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[Guest]

Herb,

The steps below did not work this time. Any more suggestions to get the
shading to work on this computer?