How to get MacroButton not to print if nothing is typed in it

[Guest]

I've created a MacroButton field in a template but don't want the field to
print if nothing is typed into the field.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Format the _prompt_ in the macrobutton field as a color that does not print.
Yellow may work. (Hidden text doesn't display in macrobuttons as you
probably have discovered.) Otherwise, you could have a print substitution
macro that changes all macrobutton fields to hidden text when you print.
Those which had something typed in them would no longer be fields. See
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/fields.htm#MacroButton and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm for more
about macrobutton fields.

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