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Hide index entries from view
Office/Word 2003 SP1 on Windows 2000 Professional
When working with a document containing index entries - {XE "index this"}- sometimes the entries will suddenly appear in the text (in Normal and Print Layout, but not Reading Layout). Show/Hide Formatting Marks has no affect on this. Sometimes I can save and re-open and the index markers will then be hidden (for a while), but is there a "Show/hide" menu option or button for this? |
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XE fields are Hidden text. You should be able to control them using the
Show/Hide ΒΆ button (unless "Hidden text" is specifically checked on the View tab of Tools | Options), but they will reappear when you add another XE field (in any version) or when you open the file (in Word 2003) if you have "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving" checked on the Security tab of Tools | Options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "MCleven" wrote in message news Office/Word 2003 SP1 on Windows 2000 Professional When working with a document containing index entries - {XE "index this"}- sometimes the entries will suddenly appear in the text (in Normal and Layout, but not Reading Layout). Show/Hide Formatting Marks has no affect on this. Sometimes I can save and re-open and the index markers will then be hidden (for a while), but is there a "Show/hide" menu option or button for this? |
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MCleven wrote:
Office/Word 2003 SP1 on Windows 2000 Professional When working with a document containing index entries - {XE "index this"}- sometimes the entries will suddenly appear in the text (in Normal and Print Layout, but not Reading Layout). Show/Hide Formatting Marks has no affect on this. Sometimes I can save and re-open and the index markers will then be hidden (for a while), but is there a "Show/hide" menu option or button for this? Look in the Tools Options View dialog, in the Formatting Marks section. There are separate checkboxes for various items, including "Hidden text", and there's an "All" checkbox. The Show/Hide button toggles only the "All" box. If the "Hidden text" box is separately checked, then the toggle won't have any effect on whether hidden text is displayed -- and that's what the XE fields are. Make sure all of those boxes are cleared, and then the Show/Hide button will behave as expected. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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