Grey brackets & grey text

[Manc Shaun]

i am using Word 2003 and some of my text within a table has grey square
brackets and greyed out text. i have turned off the "show bookmarks" setting
but the grey is still there. i have also tried turning off the shading in
Fields but this hasnt helped either. any ideas??

 

[Stefan Blom]

From your description, I'd guess what you are seeing are some form of fields.
They could be form fields, whose shading you can show/hide by clicking the
Form Field Shading button on the Forms toolbar.