Re: Word conditional text problem

["Munro, Charlie" <cmunro -at- SELSIUS -dot- COM>]

Chris,

If what you need is just a placeholder that will be replaced by the user
one time, the simple method is to use a MacroButton field. You can see
examples of this in almost any of the templates supplied with word
(faxes, letters, etc.).

Syntax: MacroButton MacroName Text to display

For example, the field { MacroButton DoNothing Insert Title Here } just
displays Insert Title Here in the document. DoNothing is a fake macro
name; there's no DoNothing macro required. When the user clicks the
field, the entire sentence is selected, and can be deleted or typed over
(in which case the field is replaced with plain text.

The only restriction is that the display text cannot wrap.

HTH
Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hamilton [mailto:chamilton -at- GR -dot- COM]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 6:47 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Word conditional text problem


Good day. Please help me.

I'm using Word hidden text (Format>Font, Hidden Attribute) to hide
delimiters I need to do some post processing after I save the file to
HTML. The file in which the delimiters are hidden has text in it that
users replace with real data. For instance, the file has this:

&Title&Insert Title Here&Title&

&Title& is hidden in both cases. The user should highlight "Insert Title
Here" and replace it with the real title--except that the title then
winds up being hidden. Which is bad.

Any suggestions as to how I would get around it?

Chris Hamilton
chamilton -at- gr -dot- com
my opinions, not my employer's


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