Hidden Text within an IF field in Word 1

[hc98br]

I have a If field in word, one of the results is text formatted as Hidden, but it does not display unless I am viewing the field code.

Is it just not possible - or is there a solution to this?


Thanks for your help

Ben

 

[tf1]

The secret to this is that the whole IF statement must be formatted as Hidden Text, not just the True or False fields. I know it is strange, but it is true!

If you only wanted one parameter (ie True or False) to be hidden, then you will have to construct two separate IF statements, one hidden, one not.

Regards: tf1

 

[hc98br]

Thanks for that - it at least stopped my trying!

The problem is I want an If field that displays some text when true and displays nothing when false - OK, but when false, I can't find it!! Which is where hidden text comes in - I thought.

Anyway - I reply now, because I have solved the problem, so just for the record, I have just made the False text white - meaning that it will not show on the print-out, and because fields are highlighted in grey, you can see it on screen!!


Hope thats useful to someone else


Thanks

Ben,

http://www.ben-robinson.com

 

[macropod]

Hi Ben,

FWIW, you could also have made the false result to be a single space character, if that wouldn't upset your document's layout. Then the (nominally empty) field would remain visible if false.

Cheers