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Subject:Re: finding hidden text From:"David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 08 May 2001 23:26:13 -0700
Dannette Thompson wrote:
>
> One) To make hidden text visible:
> Tools --> Options.
> View Tab
> Enable Hidden Text checkbox under Formatting Marks
Just click on the little paragraph-mark tool button (usually near the upper right of the Word window).
>
> Two) Toggle Field Codes:
> Press <Ctrl + A> to select all text
> Press <Alt + F9> to toggle field codes (This shows the code rather than the
> result of the code)
No need to select all first--Alt+F9 toggles field codes for the entire document.
(Shift+F9 toggles display for the selected fields only--maybe you were thinking of that.)
When hidden text is visible, you can search for ^d XE (that a caret, a lowercase "d," a space, then an uppercase "X" and "E") to find index entries. Don't search for hidden text, though--for some reason, Word doesn't think of index entries as hidden, even though they are.
--David
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David M. Brown - Brown Inc.
dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
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