WD97: Extraneous Characters Returned with ViewFieldCodes On

WORKAROUND

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• Turn off field codes view before you run your macro.

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• Use the following Visual Basic for Applications macro. The following macro uses the TextRetrievalMode property to remove the unwanted characters:

  Sub GetFieldTextExample()
     Dim MyRange As Object
     Set MyRange = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=Selection.Range.Start, _
     End:=Selection.Range.End)
     MyRange.TextRetrievalMode.IncludeFieldCodes = False
     MsgBox MyRange.Text
  End Sub
  						

NOTE: Some field results cannot be returned at all. For instance, the ListNum field result is displayed as a picture. If you attempt to retrieve the value for ListNum using any Visual Basic for Applications methods or properties, you receive either an unwanted character or an empty result. Currently, there is no workaround for a field type that displays its results as a picture.