A way to hide text within a paragraph?

[Ed]

I thought there was a field that would let you insert a large chunk of text
into a paragraph, but the text would not be visible unless you toggled Field
Codes. I'm not that familiar with fields (obviously!), so I could be dead
wrong. Formatting as Hidden Text isn't an option because that's easily
revealed by clicking the Show/Hide button on top (unless there's something
else I don't know - entirely possible!). I don't want the casual reader to
be able to view and edit the text.

Is this even possible?
Ed

 

[macropod]

Hi Ed,

No field is safe from prying eyes, or deletion - whether by accident or
intent.

That said, if you want to hide something using a field, you could so with an
IF field coded like:
{IF A = B "Here's my Hidden Text"}
Numerous other fields are also possible candidates, including the SET field,
which can be used to bookmark your hidden text - and retrieve it from
anywhere in the document via a REF field. For example:
{SET _A123BRX "Here's my Hidden Text"}
which uses the underscore to create a hidden bookmark and a meaningless code
to obfuscate its purpose.

Cheers

 

[Ed]

That's pretty ingenious! Thank you.

No field is safe from prying eyes, or deletion - whether by accident or
intent.

Agreed. What I am attempting to do is insert some kind of reference in a
doc at various places. If something gets copied from a report and thrown
around by email, it would be nice if there was at least the possibility of
retrieving what report it originally came from.

Ed

Hi Ed,

No field is safe from prying eyes, or deletion - whether by accident or
intent.

That said, if you want to hide something using a field, you could so with
an
IF field coded like:
{IF A = B "Here's my Hidden Text"}
Numerous other fields are also possible candidates, including the SET
field,
which can be used to bookmark your hidden text - and retrieve it from
anywhere in the document via a REF field. For example:
{SET _A123BRX "Here's my Hidden Text"}
which uses the underscore to create a hidden bookmark and a meaningless
code
to obfuscate its purpose.

Cheers
--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

I thought there was a field that would let you insert a large chunk of text
into a paragraph, but the text would not be visible unless you toggled Field
Codes. I'm not that familiar with fields (obviously!), so I could be
dead
wrong. Formatting as Hidden Text isn't an option because that's easily
revealed by clicking the Show/Hide button on top (unless there's
something
else I don't know - entirely possible!). I don't want the casual reader to
be able to view and edit the text.

Is this even possible?
Ed