Trouble with MergeFormat tags appearing in Word doc

Hello! I have been living with this problem for ages, and
just manually deleting them. But, I now have a new coworker who
does not get the same problem when we single-source the same
project to Word.
When I create a single-source Word document, before each
topic heading in the newly generated Word doc, I get a tag like
this: { XE "GPA:setting up" \MERGEFORMAT} I get one for each index
entry for the topic. I do not generate an index when I generate
printed docs. I'm trying to figure out where to get rid of these.
It looks like a Word setting. My coworker and I have looked at all
of our options in both Robo and Word, and can't seem to find which
one made hers go away.
I use RH7 and Word 2003.
Any ideas? Thank you for your help in advance.

Sorry - I think I figured it out. I have to look at
formatting (Show/Hide Formatting) when I use Word, she does not. I
see now that the index entry tags don't print when you print the
Word docs (so I don't need to delete them) - but they are ugly to
look at as you are editing! Not sure if there is any other way to
view all other formatting marks without those. As long as I don't
have to delete them all anymore, and they don't appear in the
printed docs, I'm happy.
Thanks anyway.

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