[Will Knight]

I wish to write a single document with two target audiences - one technical
and one not. I'd like to only write a single document for maintenance
reasons. I'd also like to be able to put the technical portions in
collapsable/hidable regions (much like the editor in VB.NET) so that the
non-technical people can only view the non-tecnical portions, but the
technical group will be able to expand them and view the entire document.

Is there a way to accomplish this effect in MS Word?

Thanks in advance!

[CyberTaz]

One option: Format the technical passages as Hidden (Format Font - Hidden
checkbox), preferrably with the Hidden attribute as a part of a Style.
--
HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Will Knight" wrote in message
...
I wish to write a single document with two target audiences - one technical
and one not. I'd like to only write a single document for maintenance
reasons. I'd also like to be able to put the technical portions in
collapsable/hidable regions (much like the editor in VB.NET) so that the
non-technical people can only view the non-tecnical portions, but the
technical group will be able to expand them and view the entire document.

Is there a way to accomplish this effect in MS Word?

Thanks in advance!

[Will Knight]

CyberTaz, thanks a ton for your tip. It actually works fairly well except
for tables. Highlighting a table and marking it as Hidden freaks Word out.
It garbles it.

Unfortunately my documents are technical specifications and are riddled with
tables.

I'm trying to combine a functional spec and technical spec in the same
document, but when it is viewed by a functional user, I'd like them to be
able to hide the technical sections so they can just view the parts they're
interested in - the functional requirements.

Thanks again,
Will

"CyberTaz" wrote:

One option: Format the technical passages as Hidden (Format Font - Hidden
checkbox), preferrably with the Hidden attribute as a part of a Style.
--
HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Will Knight" wrote in message
...
I wish to write a single document with two target audiences - one technical
and one not. I'd like to only write a single document for maintenance
reasons. I'd also like to be able to put the technical portions in
collapsable/hidable regions (much like the editor in VB.NET) so that the
non-technical people can only view the non-tecnical portions, but the
technical group will be able to expand them and view the entire document.

Is there a way to accomplish this effect in MS Word?

Thanks in advance!

[Graham Mayor]

I suppose you could put an ASK field in the document eg

{ ASK Tech "Include Technical Data?" \d No }

Then conditionally insert the technical data sections using either
includetext or autotext fields eg

{ IF{ REF Tech } "N*" "{ INCLUDETEXT "D:\\My Documents\\TechText.doc"
TextA }" }

where TextA is a bookmarked section from the TechText document that would
contain all the technical items.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Will Knight wrote:
CyberTaz, thanks a ton for your tip. It actually works fairly well
except for tables. Highlighting a table and marking it as Hidden
freaks Word out. It garbles it.

Unfortunately my documents are technical specifications and are
riddled with tables.

I'm trying to combine a functional spec and technical spec in the same
document, but when it is viewed by a functional user, I'd like them
to be able to hide the technical sections so they can just view the
parts they're interested in - the functional requirements.

Thanks again,
Will

"CyberTaz" wrote:

One option: Format the technical passages as Hidden (Format Font -
Hidden checkbox), preferrably with the Hidden attribute as a part of
a Style. --
HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Will Knight" wrote in message
...
I wish to write a single document with two target audiences - one
technical and one not. I'd like to only write a single document
for maintenance reasons. I'd also like to be able to put the
technical portions in collapsable/hidable regions (much like the
editor in VB.NET) so that the non-technical people can only view
the non-tecnical portions, but the technical group will be able to
expand them and view the entire document.

Is there a way to accomplish this effect in MS Word?

Thanks in advance!