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Word VBA >> Unvisible Text / property

by Peter Lingo » Sun, 01 Aug 2004 07:06:45 GMT

Hello,

I have a vba application for word, in which it is nesessary to put
information (=text) in the document which is unvisible for the user. Is
there any property were this can be done?
thanks Peter



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Word VBA >> Unvisible Text / property

by Stan Scott » Sun, 01 Aug 2004 09:53:50 GMT


Yes. If you do it from the document itself, you select the text, click
Format and then check the "Hidden" checkbox on the dialog. If you do it
from code, use Selection.Font.Hidden = True








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Word VBA >> Unvisible Text / property

by Doug Robbins » Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:11:25 GMT

Hi Peter,

The following will insert some text and format the font as hidden

Dim myrange As Range
Set myrange = Selection.Range
myrange.Text = "Some Text"
myrange.Font.Hidden = True

The user can easily see it however if they turn on the display of hidden
text. Using a DocumentVariable would allow you to save some text with the
document so that:

You could later retrieve if by

Using VBA
Inserting a DocVariable field

Even then however, all that the user would have to do is run the following
code to learn what the text is:

Dim avar As Variable
For Each avar In ActiveDocument.Variables
MsgBox avar.Value
Next avar

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP





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Unvisible Text / property

by peter.lingo » Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:18:56 GMT






Can it make be sure that the user can't made the hidden text visible?
Even when the rest of document is editable completly
(format/content...)?

Thanks Peter

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Unvisible Text / property

by Doug Robbins » Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:34:13 GMT

If it's in the document, the user can read it.

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interested. Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a paid
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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP







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Unvisible Text / property

by Chad DeMeyer » Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:41:48 GMT

If you store the information in document variables, it will be accessible to
users but the average user doesn't know what they are or how to access them.
They can only be read by inserting a DOCVARIABLE field in the document or
using VBA.

Regards,
Chad







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Unvisible Text / property

by peter.lingo » Wed, 04 Aug 2004 02:46:06 GMT






Thanks for the suggestions, DOCVARIABLE works like I want

Peter

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Unvisible Text / property

by Chad DeMeyer » Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:50:34 GMT

Glad to be of assistance
Regards,
Chad






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Unvisible Text / property

by peter.lingo » Mon, 09 Aug 2004 06:01:57 GMT










one further quetions

there is the method activedocument.variables.add
but why is not the activedocument.variables.remove method available?

thanks Peter

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