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Can you over-ride hidden text (explicitly not hidden)?
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. |
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Can you over-ride hidden text (explicitly not hidden)?
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). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org 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. |
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