Change Font formatting of Word Field

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Is there any way to change the Font appearance of a Word form Field? We are using a Word Field to link to other sections of a Word document using bookmark names.

For example:

string linkLabel = "REF " + bookmarkName + " \\h";
Field link = this.wordDocBuilder.InsertField(linkLabel );

The bookmarks references are often table, image or section titles. I would like to make these links stand out by coloring the text blue and underlining them like a hyperlink.

I have tried setting that before I insert the field with:

this.wordDocBuilder.Font.Color = Color.Blue;
this.wordDocBuilder.Font.Underline = Underline.Single;

but it does not appear to have any affect. I assume that is because there is no actual font being used when I use InsertField command as opposed to inserting text with DocumentBuilder.Write

In Word, I can select the text displayed by the Word Field and modify the font but I have not found a way to do that with the Aspose API. Would I need to wrap a run around the Word Field? If so, how can I create a run containing just the Word Field?

I have tried using FieldFormat object on the field, but that does not contain Font information, just formats for Date, time, numbers, etc…

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@mhimlin This occurs because REF field uses formatting of the refenced content. You can change it’s font after updating it. For example see the following code:

Document doc = new Document(@"C:\Temp\in.docx");
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

string bookmarkName = "my_bookmark";
string linkLabel = "REF " + bookmarkName + " \\h";

Field link = builder.InsertField(linkLabel);
link.Update();

// Chenge the font of REF field. Note, the font will be reset after updating fields.
Inline current = link.Start;
while (current!=null && current != link.End)
{
    current.Font.Color = Color.Blue;
    current.Font.Underline = Underline.Single;
    current = current.NextSibling as Inline;
}

doc.Save(@"C:\Temp\out.docx");

But font will be reset after updating fields.