Re: form content disappears with select-all/update fields

Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
After selecting everything, hold down the Shift and the Ctrl keys and then press F9.


One more question.

After I do this (shift-ctrl-F9), the forms appear to be correctly populated. However, after doing that, other aspects of the document change. For example, the hyperlinking capability disappears in the ToC/LoF/LoT and--most importantly--if I select-all, I can no longer update the fields. The only way to be able to update the fields (after doing a shift-ctrl-F9) is to do an Undo. (Doing another shift-ctrl-F9 doesn't toggle this behavior on/off.)

So I'm not sure if that's intentional behavior or not. It seems to me that maybe by doing the shift-ctrl-F9, I'm sending the document into some production state, but getting to that state seems to be a one-way process.

Is there some way around this? I'm wondering if it's just a setting that I've got to fix or if this behavior indicates some other thing.

?? Thanks for any help/guidance.
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