Word 2004 Equations at 100% bright are no longer invisible

J

John_McKinley

Hi everyone,

I want to make some embedded equations invisible in Word 2004 under OS
X 10.4 without altering the pagination or layout. Setting embedded
equations to 100% bright makes them invisible in Normal and Page
Layout views, and in Word's Print Preview, but print as bright blue
boxes. Printing to PDF gives the same result i.e.bright blue boxes in
the PDF. There appears to be one for each character, the size and
position of the character, suggesting a background colour in a box
bounding the characters.

Setting 100% brightness for an embedded clip art image also gives a
visible printed image - in this case, when printed the image is a
version of the original with different shades of blue fill.

I've just migrated from OS 9 and Office 2000 with Acrobat, where I'd
been using this approach for several years to prepare "fill in the
blanks" style lecture notes from complete originals. There it worked
fine - nice blank areas where the equations are there but invisible.
As a workaround, I can overlay white rectangles from the Drawing
module in Page Layout view, but this is a considerable pain compared
to setting the equations to 100% bright and using "Repeat command".

Is there a way to get invisible pictures in Word 2004 under OS X 10.4?
 
J

John McGhie

Hi John:

Select the graphic and set the Font to "Invisible" :)

Cheers


Hi everyone,

I want to make some embedded equations invisible in Word 2004 under OS
X 10.4 without altering the pagination or layout. Setting embedded
equations to 100% bright makes them invisible in Normal and Page
Layout views, and in Word's Print Preview, but print as bright blue
boxes. Printing to PDF gives the same result i.e.bright blue boxes in
the PDF. There appears to be one for each character, the size and
position of the character, suggesting a background colour in a box
bounding the characters.

Setting 100% brightness for an embedded clip art image also gives a
visible printed image - in this case, when printed the image is a
version of the original with different shades of blue fill.

I've just migrated from OS 9 and Office 2000 with Acrobat, where I'd
been using this approach for several years to prepare "fill in the
blanks" style lecture notes from complete originals. There it worked
fine - nice blank areas where the equations are there but invisible.
As a workaround, I can overlay white rectangles from the Drawing
module in Page Layout view, but this is a considerable pain compared
to setting the equations to 100% bright and using "Repeat command".

Is there a way to get invisible pictures in Word 2004 under OS X 10.4?

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J

John_McKinley

Select the graphic and set the Font to "Invisible" :)

I can't find an entry for Invisible under font, but I take it you mean
"Hidden". Thank you for this suggestion, I have now tried it. However,
the layout changes in the printed form unless I turn on "Hidden text"
in the Preferences/Print, which rather defeats the purpose. I'd be
quite happy using "Hidden text", if the layout of the non-hidden
elements were the same as if the hidden elements were actually
printed. This is so my printed versions of the fill-in-the-blanks
version and the (original) blanks-filled-in-version have the same
layout, at least roughly.
 
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Bob Mathews

Wouldn't it work if you set the transparency to 100%?

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J

John_McKinley

Wouldn't it work if you set the transparency to 100%?

Yes, it does, and that seems to answer my question perfectly. I had
overlooked the option to set the fill transparency to 100%, although I
had spotted the option to set the line transparency to 100% and found
I could not change that value for either the embedded equation or the
embedded clip art and hadn't noticed the fill transparency setting was
possible. Even better, fill transparency of 100% also can be repeated
using "command Y", so happy days.

Thank you both for your help, John McGhie and Bob Mathews.
 

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