Hidden text is exactly that - hidden! It is not seen by Styleref fields.
White text as you have discovered is a reasonable compromise, but it takes
up space.. You can always format the white style to 1 point, so that it
takes up very little room, but it will be difficult to find later (use the
Find function to find the style).
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David Powell wrote:
I will first explain my objective, then my problem and current
workaround. I am open to alternative solutions also.
I want a book of readings which largely preserve the individual
formatting of the readings, with the exception of the addition of
headers and footers which identify the page number and the name of
the reading. I am using a STYLEREF field to identify the reading in
the footer. The readings themselves are sometimes "page images" -
scanned pages. I want to identify the reading invisibly with a style
that the STYLEREF can use as the running head (or "running foot", if
you like).
I created a character style called "InvisibleTopicLabel" which had the
Hidden effect set. However, I couldn't get this to appear in the
STYLEREF reference, even after removing "\* MERGEFORMAT", and even
after explicitly applying "\* CHARFORMAT" and a special style for the
STYLEREF. In fact, in trying to define that special style, I found
that while I could explicitly assert a "No ..." for other effects
(like "underline"), I could not do so for "Hidden". Is this a
known restriction, or am I missing something?
My workaround was to define "InvisibleTopicLabel" as white text.
Obviously, this requires that the text doesn't occlude part of the
original page image - a concern, because I hope to automate this
process (not require operator placement of the label). Also, it's
hard to see when you *want* to see it. I solved this by applying a
green background, which Word by default won't print.
I've avoided creating a master document, because of advice at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm. But I
imagine if I could safely go this way, I could use document
properties, bookmarks, etc., to pick up the sub-book topic (is this
so?). Anyway, I intend to heed the advice of the MVPs on this unless
persuaded otherwise. But also open to other strategies.
Thanks.