Your points are well-taken. You're right, it's pretty odd to hide something
that isn't secret and which you'd willing give to anyone who asks.
Let me be a bit less cryptic.
The document in question is my resume and macro(s) I've been developing for
the past few days are going to generate it "on demand", i.e. when I run the
VBScript that starts Word invisibly and invokes my main macro.
I could invoke the VBScript at any time and will likely do so several times
a day while I'm in development mode, but I'd probably only do so very
infrequently after that. It would be nice to be able to determine when the
version of the resume which is currently in 'resume.doc' was generated; that
would help me confirm that I'm looking at the latest and greatest version.
But I don't particularly want the people who get the resume to see when it
was last updated since this will not normally be a concern for them. After
all, when we are given resumes, we assume they are current and don't really
need to know the precise date when they were last updated.
That's why I was looking for some way of reliably recording the last-update
date in the document so that I could find it when I need it but not
flaunting it in the face of readers of the resume.
Maybe document properties are the way to go then. I'm not going to be
perturbed if someone goes to the trouble of finding that date but I will
have avoided putting it in the actual document itself where it might
distract a reader. (I can see the benefit of being able to put Comments in a
document and sharing them with other readers during the draft/revision
stages of a document but I thought the Comments were rather distracting in a
final version of the document.)
What do you think?
--
Rhino
Tony Jollans said:
Hmmmm.....
Document properties are 'hard to find' but this can be circumvented by a
free download (for those who don't know how to do it themselves) - not
really secret then!
Rhino,
There are all sorts of ways to hide information from casual readers of a
document but none to hide it from knowledgeable and/or determined readers.
And I can't understand your requirement to hide something which you are
quite prepared to tell to anyone who asks. If you really want to hide the
information you'll have to keep it separately from the document - and in
the
case of a revision date you'll have to deliberately 'fiddle' the one which
Word keeps visibly (under File > Properties) with the document.