Hidden Text

[Simon]

Hello, is it possible to purposfully 'hide' or collapse
areas of text in a Word document in the same way as Lotus
Notes (I think they may be called Twisties?) To be more
specific, you can highlight a selection of text and
collapse it and all you aer left with is a small blue
triangle at the side of the document. Clicking this
triangle will expand the selection again for viewing.
Can this be done in Word XP?
Thanks, Simon

 

[Graham Mayor]

Not exactly, but the Outline view may provide what you want.

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[Simon]

Hi Graham, thanks for the reply. The Outline really only
cuts down to paragraph headings, ideally i want to
randomly select any area of a page and shrink it to the
side, sort of like a comment. Is this possible?
Simon

 

[Graham Mayor]

No. The best you can manage would probably be to format the text as hidden
and then add a button to the toolbar to toggle hidden text off/on. The code
for the macro behind that button would be:

Sub ShowHidden()
With ActiveWindow.View
.ShowHiddenText = Not .ShowHiddenText
End With
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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