RE: Hidden text?

["Joel Lidov" <Lidov () qc ! edu>]

The various methods described here already will hide text,  but there is 
no "print/ don't print" option.  When I've needed that (to print a 
syllabus with and without comments to myself), I've set up three styles 
(SS) at the top; two in a row have the same name and one of these turns 
the foreground = font color white, the other does nothing.  

<<SSnoprint, fg=255,255,255 or whatever it is>>
<<SSnoprint,>>

Whichever one is placed second takes effect.  But when I need to I go into 
"show codes" and put an LB in front of the second ss (<<LBSSnoprint>>) 
which simply cancels it.  The optional text then has <<USnoprint>> in 
front of it and the operative SS command rules.  The third SS follows the 
optional text and reasserts a black font; it's otiose in the cases where I 
hadn't changed the font, but harmless.  Note however, that the text always 
occupies space.  This method allows me to change a document globally, 
rather than search for each item hidden in IV brackets.

Joel

Michael Burer wrote on 21 Feb 2006

> I can tell Word to show and print hidden text, and I'll see example just as
> it is both on screen and in print. If I tell Word to show hidden text on
> screen but not print it, I'll see it as above on screen but it will print
> like this: