Programmatically controlling Comment visibility

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I am creating a document template (.dot) that contains comments. When the
user opens a new document (.doc) using the template, I want the Comments to
be visible, but when the user opens an already existing document I want the
Comments to be hidden. Moreover, whenever the user prints the document I
want the Comments supressed. I suspect this will have to be done with VBA.
Can any of you bright folks suggest how to do this?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I am creating a document template (.dot) that contains comments. When the
user opens a new document (.doc) using the template, I want the Comments to
be visible, but when the user opens an already existing document I want the
Comments to be hidden. Moreover, whenever the user prints the document I
want the Comments supressed. I suspect this will have to be done with VBA.
Can any of you bright folks suggest how to do this?

Well, the appropriate place to address a VBA question would be a word.vba
newsgroup ("Programming", in the web interface lists)

What can be done depends also, to a certain extent, on which version of Word is
being manipulated. The interface changed quite a bit going into Word
2002/2003...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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