Terry,
Using find and replace to remove hidden text will work for 2003,
2007 and 2010, except that if you want to add a building block for
it in 2007 and 2010, after recording the macro, the menu path is "Office
Button – Word Options – Customize", instead of "Tools – Customize".
(The path for recording the macro also
is different in 2007 and 2010, it's "View
– Macros –
Macros –
Record Macro").
Once the hidden text is stripped out of a document using find and
replace, it doesn't matter what version of Word (or what
application, e.g. Outlook, Excel, OpenOffice) is used to open it,
the text has been removed, and so the text, she is not there.
If the button is added to a 2003 template and a document is
created in 2007 or 2010 using the 2003 template, the button will appear in
the "Add-Ins" tab BUT, CAUTION, Word 2007 or 2010 won't be
able to access the macro because it is not stored in a .docm file.
The answer to this is not to use in 2007 or 2010 a macro recorded
for this purpose in Word 2003 template but instead go through the
(rather easy) process in 2007 or 2010 of recording the macro for the
find and replace operation, then adding the macro as a building
block. What is actually in the VBA code can be entirely ignored.
One of the uses I have for hidden text is to hide content when the
client "thinks" it should be removed (to answer the question of why
anyone would want to use this feature). When the decision is later
reversed, it's very easy to add back in (since it was never removed
in the first place). Personal notes about a document I always keep
in a separate text (Notepad) file, never in the Word document.
All of the above is on the usual caveat that I'm not running and
don't have access to Word 2007 or 2010.
Going back to an earlier discussion, the reason some of us have
trouble multitasking is at:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/multitasking-brains/
Cheers,
Neil.
On 20/04/2011 2:31 PM, Terry Dowling wrote:
Neil,
will your macro work across versions? As a VBA-illiterate who
records macros, I’m sure mine wouldn’t.
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