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"Spontaneous Generation" of Hidden Text
I have inherited a series of 23 forms that were created about four years ago.
Each form is a multi-page table. I have been trying to revise these forms this week, and some cells of some of the tables are suddenly being formatted as hidden text. It isn't always the entire cell. Sometimes only a few words or a punctuation mark will go to hidden text. Sometimes, it's an empty cell that is formatted as hidden. In one case, the hidden attribute started showing up as I typed. Some earlier versions of these forms also had hidden text, but the amount of hidden text is greater now than it was before. I don't ithink/i it is a "copy and paste" problem or a "paste formatting" problem. Is there any known bug that could cause text to just suddenly become hidden? |
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"Spontaneous Generation" of Hidden Text
In one of these forms, I have searched for all hidden text, and have removed
the hidden attribute. A search for hidden text finds nothing. But then when I try to paste anything into certain cells, it comes in as hidden, EVEN IF IT WASN'T HIDDEN IN THE ORIGINAL. Other cells work fine. I have checked styles in the cells, and they don't show a hidden attribute. Arrggghhhh! "Idaho Word Man" wrote: I have inherited a series of 23 forms that were created about four years ago. Each form is a multi-page table. I have been trying to revise these forms this week, and some cells of some of the tables are suddenly being formatted as hidden text. It isn't always the entire cell. Sometimes only a few words or a punctuation mark will go to hidden text. Sometimes, it's an empty cell that is formatted as hidden. In one case, the hidden attribute started showing up as I typed. Some earlier versions of these forms also had hidden text, but the amount of hidden text is greater now than it was before. I don't ithink/i it is a "copy and paste" problem or a "paste formatting" problem. Is there any known bug that could cause text to just suddenly become hidden? |
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"Spontaneous Generation" of Hidden Text
Yes, that's not only "possible" it's "expected".
The Default style in a Table is Table Normal. The default paragraph style is Normal. The end-of-row marker in a table is ALWAYS "Normal" style, and you can't change that. But internally, a Cell can have both a Paragraph style and a Character style. The Paragraph style is what you might consider the "default" style. The Character style overrides this, but only for character formatting. Page Number is a Character style. Your favourite intellectually-challenged co-worker has overridden the formatting of the Page Number style with the "Hidden" property, presumably because that was easier than reading the help to find out how to get page numbering working. If I were you, I would correct this, otherwise the page numbers in the document may be a little difficult to see when printed :-) cheers On 10/2/06 7:12 AM, in article , "Idaho Word Man" wrote: That was it. The style somebody (read "some moron") had applied to the cells was Page Number + Hidden. It almost looked as if the text in the cells had a different style than the default style for the cell. Is that possible? "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macinto" wrote: Check the properties of the STYLE in use in the cells in question. On 9/2/06 6:56 AM, in article , "Idaho Word Man" wrote: In one of these forms, I have searched for all hidden text, and have removed the hidden attribute. A search for hidden text finds nothing. But then when I try to paste anything into certain cells, it comes in as hidden, EVEN IF IT WASN'T HIDDEN IN THE ORIGINAL. Other cells work fine. I have checked styles in the cells, and they don't show a hidden attribute. Arrggghhhh! "Idaho Word Man" wrote: I have inherited a series of 23 forms that were created about four years ago. Each form is a multi-page table. I have been trying to revise these forms this week, and some cells of some of the tables are suddenly being formatted as hidden text. It isn't always the entire cell. Sometimes only a few words or a punctuation mark will go to hidden text. Sometimes, it's an empty cell that is formatted as hidden. In one case, the hidden attribute started showing up as I typed. Some earlier versions of these forms also had hidden text, but the amount of hidden text is greater now than it was before. I don't ithink/i it is a "copy and paste" problem or a "paste formatting" problem. Is there any known bug that could cause text to just suddenly become hidden? -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 |
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