How to make text invisible

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How to make text invisible without changing document layout? (formatting
fonts as "hidden" cause lines to shrink...)
 
Format it as Font color: White instead.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Thanks for your prompt reply. Regretfully this advice is not applicable since
I would not see the text I'm typing. I would stress the point: I would like
to select part of the text seen on screen and prevent it from being printed.
Selecting white fonts would NOT allow me to see the screen text, while the
"Hidden" would cause the printed document to change page layout according to
the selected text. Any other idea?
Kind Regards
firmdew
 
You format it as white *after* you type it!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Once text is formatted as "white" it disappears from screen. I want it to
stay visible on screen but NOT to be printed.
 
For example: I would like to print an exam sentence in which some of the
words are missing (and should be completed by the pupil). The pupil should
NOT be able to see these words in the printed exam, but I want the teacher's
"screen exam" to contain and show those unprinted words. I hope I'm clearer
now....
 
Make 2 copies. One for the students and one for the teachers. Can just do
as suggested on the one for the pupils and make a separate one that is all
visible. OR you can make knote of where the whiteouts are, print it and then
take them out again putting in normal color or a different one for the
teaches to have it stand out.
 
If you whiteout the text using a character style, it is easy to "switch"
just by modifying the style.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Create a new character style and call it 'White'.
Apply that style to the text that you want to be white.
Set the colour of that style by using a pair of macros attached to toolbar
buttons:


Sub MakeBlack()
ActiveDocument.Styles("White").Font.Color = wdColorBlack
End Sub
Sub MakeWhite()
ActiveDocument.Styles("White").Font.Color = wdColorWhite
End Sub

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

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