

Clear or select the Field Codes check box, depending on whether you want to see the codes (selected) or their results (cleared).

(Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (12863) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Office 365. If you want to display the results of all field codes in your document, instead of viewing the codes themselves, press Alt+F9. WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. The Shift+F9 shortcut controls the one field code under the insertion point. The field code for the hyperlink should disappear, replaced with the actual text you have associated with the link. If there's a paragraph return at the end of each line (as there might be in an imported text file), then each line is a paragraph, and interparagraph spacing would apply.-Suzanne S. Spacing Before/After in Format Paragraph. Try this the next time you see the weird hyperlink: just move the insertion point somewhere between the two brackets and press Shift+F9. other than 'Top,' you may get strange results. Chances are good that this weird behavior is an indication that you are seeing the field code for the hyperlink, instead of the result of that field code (just the link itself). Hyperlinks are managed through the use of field codes. I have both mac and pc and, if I design a template on one, there’s a chance it’ll look different on the other. The solution is quite simple, if you understand how Word handles hyperlinks behind-the-scenes. You can set your own version of Word up in a certain way and, if you open someone else’s document on your machine, it’ll look different (and vice-versa). Has this ever happened to you? You go to insert a hyperlink in your document (either by inserting it or copying it from another location) and the URL for the hyperlink appears with brackets and the word "hypertext" in front of it.
