Now you're trying to convince me to use Word 2007/10. Not until I've done one of your courses! When are you coming to Perth? Actually, deleting was my recommendation. And to me it would make more sense that the MS applications worked in a logical and consistent manner. Thanks Christine. Terry From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Kent Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2011 11:00 AM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: hidden text exposed As hidden text is a machine specific setting, you cannot control the remote computer. So as someone or other might have suggested, take a copy of your document, strip out the hidden text (easy to do as a single operation using the Inspect Document feature in Word 2007/2010), and send them the clean copy only. This is wise in any circumstance so that you don't make any silly mistakes. Christine <snip> Motto of the story, is delete, don't hide. HTH, Terry