Code Property

Applies To

Field object, MailMergeField object.

Description

Returns a Range object that represents a field's code. A field's code is everything that's enclosed by the field characters ({ }) including the leading space and trailing space characters. You can access a field's code without changing the view from field results. Read/write.

See Also

Result property, ShowCodes property, Text property.

Example

This example displays the field code for each field in the active document.

For Each aField In ActiveDocument.Fields
    MsgBox Chr(34) & aField.Code.Text & Chr(34)
Next aField

This example changes the field code for the first field in the active document to CREATEDATE.

Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Fields(1).Code
myRange.Text = " CREATEDATE "
ActiveDocument.Fields(1).Update

This example determines whether the active document includes a mail merge field named "Title."

For Each aField In ActiveDocument.MailMerge.Fields
    If InStr(1, aField.Code.Text, "Title", 1) Then
        MsgBox "A Title merge field is in this document"
    End If
Next aField