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Charles Kenyon
I was using Word 97 to assist a friend in formatting a letter he had typed
into usable format. I copied his text into a letter format using Paste
Special unformatted text and then applied the body text style to one
paragraph and used the format painter to copy the formatting to other
paragraphs. There were some paragraphs to be indented that I created a new
style for. I applied that style using the format painter as well.
When we finished, unnoticed to either of us, there were 5-7 individual words
in different paragraphs formatted as hidden text. Neither of us
intentionally added hidden text formatting. The template I use has some
hidden text instructions in a textbox so hidden text is displayed on screen.
I can't figure out how this happened although I see that if the cursor is in
a word and I hit Ctrl-Shift-H it will toggle the hidden formatting for the
word.
I checked his original text and none of it was formatted as hidden.
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Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>
See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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into usable format. I copied his text into a letter format using Paste
Special unformatted text and then applied the body text style to one
paragraph and used the format painter to copy the formatting to other
paragraphs. There were some paragraphs to be indented that I created a new
style for. I applied that style using the format painter as well.
When we finished, unnoticed to either of us, there were 5-7 individual words
in different paragraphs formatted as hidden text. Neither of us
intentionally added hidden text formatting. The template I use has some
hidden text instructions in a textbox so hidden text is displayed on screen.
I can't figure out how this happened although I see that if the cursor is in
a word and I hit Ctrl-Shift-H it will toggle the hidden formatting for the
word.
I checked his original text and none of it was formatted as hidden.
--
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>
See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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