Searching for a Specific Field

Other issues of WordTips have featured ways in which you can search for field codes, in general. You may be wondering how you can search for a specific type of field code. You can do it by following these steps:

1. Make sure field codes are showing in your document. If not, press Alt+F9 to display them.
2. Press Ctrl+F. Word displays the Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
3. In the Find What box, type either ^d or ^19. This is the code to find the opening field brace.
4. Type a space followed by the field name.
5. If available, click the More button.
6. Make sure no formatting is being searched for, and that no other check boxes in the dialog box are selected.
7. Click on Find Next.

As an example, if you wanted to find a DATE field, after following steps 3 and 4, you would be searching for "^d DATE" (without the quote marks, of course).