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Hi Guys,
I have been trying to find a way to permanently hide some confidential text in a Word document and hope someone out there can help. I created a document that contains a reference section that are referred to throughout the document. I want to distribute this document as a read-only document but I do not want to disclose the reference section as it is confidential. I have set the password protection so that the document is read-only without the password. Here are what I have tried and FAILED to achieve my objective so far: 1. Hide Text : hightlight the reference section text and set it to hidden, but others can simply toggle it to unhide it even though the document is modification protected. 2. Master document: break the document into 2 subdocuments "content" and "reference" and insert them into a master document, so I could distribute just the "content" subdocument. But with only the "content" subdocument, all the cross-reference in that subdocument becomes error. 3. Use white colour to hide it: but this is not fool proof. Any suggestions? Tks. JY |
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Basically you can't do it.
What you might be able to do is to create your document with all the references (which are all Fields). Make sure all the references ae correct than delete the reference section and protect the document. The Fields will not be automatically updated (assuming they're in the main body of the document) and the protection will stop anybody manually updating them (from non-existent source). I haven't tried this, of course, it's just an idea. -- Enjoy, Tony "JY" wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I have been trying to find a way to permanently hide some confidential text in a Word document and hope someone out there can help. I created a document that contains a reference section that are referred to throughout the document. I want to distribute this document as a read-only document but I do not want to disclose the reference section as it is confidential. I have set the password protection so that the document is read-only without the password. Here are what I have tried and FAILED to achieve my objective so far: 1. Hide Text : hightlight the reference section text and set it to hidden, but others can simply toggle it to unhide it even though the document is modification protected. 2. Master document: break the document into 2 subdocuments "content" and "reference" and insert them into a master document, so I could distribute just the "content" subdocument. But with only the "content" subdocument, all the cross-reference in that subdocument becomes error. 3. Use white colour to hide it: but this is not fool proof. Any suggestions? Tks. JY |
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JY, Tony's idea may work. If it does, it's probably the only way that
will work. Give up any hope of having the reference section stay in the document that you distribute, because all anyone needs to do to see the "hidden" text is to open the document in a text editor such as Notepad. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:37:38 -0000, "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote: Basically you can't do it. What you might be able to do is to create your document with all the references (which are all Fields). Make sure all the references ae correct than delete the reference section and protect the document. The Fields will not be automatically updated (assuming they're in the main body of the document) and the protection will stop anybody manually updating them (from non-existent source). I haven't tried this, of course, it's just an idea. -- Enjoy, Tony "JY" wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I have been trying to find a way to permanently hide some confidential text in a Word document and hope someone out there can help. I created a document that contains a reference section that are referred to throughout the document. I want to distribute this document as a read-only document but I do not want to disclose the reference section as it is confidential. I have set the password protection so that the document is read-only without the password. Here are what I have tried and FAILED to achieve my objective so far: 1. Hide Text : hightlight the reference section text and set it to hidden, but others can simply toggle it to unhide it even though the document is modification protected. 2. Master document: break the document into 2 subdocuments "content" and "reference" and insert them into a master document, so I could distribute just the "content" subdocument. But with only the "content" subdocument, all the cross-reference in that subdocument becomes error. 3. Use white colour to hide it: but this is not fool proof. Any suggestions? Tks. JY |
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