Re: Way to hide text without hidden text font?

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You could stash your field codes as AutoText entries. I give my special
AutoText entries a prefix that makes them unlikely to pop up on their own.
In my pleading templates, the names will start with pl_.
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<teedilo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Can anyone think of a good way to hide some text without using the
> hidden text font? I also don't want to use a macro solution, for
> reasons I care not to get into right now. The text in question can be
> in a table cell, but I don't really want it to take up space -- or at
> least not much -- no matter how much text is there.
>
> The best way I've come up with so far is to put the text into a text
> box and set the height and width to zero. That works, but it becomes
> tricky to find the blasted thing afterwards. One way to find it later
> is to apply a particular style to the text before shrinking the text
> box, and then do a find for text of that style after it's been
> shrunken. At least then you can spot the handles of the text box so
> you can temporarily resize it to a reasonable size to work with, and
> then reshrink it again when you're finished. That might be OK if I
> can't find another technique that would be easier to maintain.
>
> Why in the world am I doing this? I'm creating a template for a group
> of people that I work with. The text box will contain field codes for
> setting document properties, and I don't want people seeing or messing
> with them. Without a protected document, I realize that this isn't
> entirely risk free, but if I stash the text box away in a table cell
> that people normally shouldn't be messing with, this shouldn't be an
> issue.
>
> Why not just use the hidden text font? I might actually just end up
> using that. However, I kind of had plans to use hidden text font for
> imbedding instructions to the user of the template (with the option for
> viewing hidden text turned on, but the option for printing hidden text
> turned of, of course). I could also use the comment feature for user
> instructions, but Word's comment presentation options are less than
> ideal for this purpose, and I also wouldn't want my comments to
> interfere with any comments that the user might decide to use.
>
> This isn't a burning issue for me, but I figured someone else might
> have other clever ideas. I'm using Word 2003, by the way.
>


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