How do I hide an image for printing

[Guest]

I have an printed invitation that will be laser overprinted with text in a
msw document. I want to put in a "picture" of the invite, in order to place
the msw text correctly, but I do not want this to print. Is there a way to
make sure that the image will not print? This document will be used by other
people doing the same procedure multiple times.
Also, what is the best format to insert the invite as in order to keep the
file size small?
Thank you!!

 

[macropod]

Hi Patti,

You can do this by putting the picture inside a field that tests the print
date property. For a 'tutorial' with examples of how you can do this and
much more than you ever thought you might want to with dates and times, all
using Word fields, download the Word document at:
www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902
(url all one line)

Cheers

 

[Guest]

I have NO idea how to do this. Don't even know how to insert a field. I just
want an image that is For Position Only (to ensure text is in the right
place) but doesn't print.
??????
Thanks
P

 

[macropod]

Hi patti,

If you download the document referred to in my previous post, you'll find a
topic titled 'Hide instructions at print time'. Under that heading is a Word
field with the text 'Your instructions go here.'. Copy that field into your
document.

Next, press Shift-F9 to expand the field's coding. It looks like:
{IF{PRINTDATE \@ yyyyMMddHHmm}={DATE \@ yyyyMMddHHmm} "" "Your instructions
go here."}

To get the effect you're after, replace all of "Your instructions go here."
with your picture. Remember to leave an empty space after the existing "".
Press F9 and your picture should now display without the rest of the field
coding but, when you print the document the picture will disappear and not
be printed. As noted under that topic, the field coding will keep the
picture hidden for up to a minute after printing. You will be able to see it
again if you wait until your system clock rolls over to the next minute then
select the (hidden) field again and press F9. Alternatively, you could close
and re-open the document.

Cheers