How to show only specific formatting marks/fields? (Such as TC fields only)

Question

I can show all formatting marks using the following:

ThisDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowAll = True

The result is the same as using the "Show/Hide" button built into the GUI (it also reveals line breaks, whitespace characters, tabs, etc)

Is there a way to only show specific fields, such as TC fields?

Thank you

Answer 1

Formatting marks are different from field codes. You can show all field codes with Alt + F9. Select a field and press Shift + F9 to view the field code for that field.

To display the field codes for just one type of field, you would have to write a macro to loop through all fields, check the field type and display it if it's the correct kind..

Answer 2

Thanks JohnKorchok,

I'm not trying to turn on field codes for one type of field, I'm trying to only display a particular type of field.

In this case, I only want to show TC fields. (Table of Contents entries)

If I used ThisDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes, this was also showing the code in REF fields as well which is not what I wanted.

I found that using the following achieves what I'm trying to do (for someone else who might find this post):

ThisDocument.ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = True

Technically, this might turn on other things as well, but in my case, it's only showing TC fields. I imagine if you had other fields which are classified as "hiddenText" they would also show, in my case, it's only the TC fields.