How to turn on or turn off highlighting of fields in a Word document

• Fields codes instead of their results - see How to show blue links instead of { HYPERLINK link } in a document Word:
  
• Fields results that look like a regular text (only when you select a text with fields, you can see the difference):
  
• Fields results with highlighting, all fields in the document are highlighted:
  

When you edit the document, it is helpful to highlight fields in the document. To turn on or turn off highlighting of all fields in a document, do the following:

   1.   On the File tab, click the Options button:

   2.   In the Word Options dialog box, on the Advanced tab, under Show document content, select the option you prefer in the Field shading drop-down list:

• Never to turn off highlighting fields whatever is the text selected or not.
• Always to turn on highlighting fields whatever if the text selected or not.
• When selected to highlight fields only if the text is selected and don't highlight them without selecting.

See also this tip in French: Comment activer ou désactiver la mise en surbrillance des champs dans un document Word.