You can hide sections of text if necessary. Hidden text is usually only displayed on a screen but is not printed.
Application: Hidden text is ideal for comments or notes that you want to incorporate into a document so that, for example, they will be displayed on a screen but will not appear on a printout.
Hiding text
To hide text, proceed as follows:
| 1. | Select the desired text. |
| 2. | Click on the group arrow in the bottom right corner of the ribbon tab Home | group Character. |
| 3. | In the dialog box, switch to the Font tab. |
| 4. | Select the option Hidden. |
The text is now hidden. It is displayed by default on a screen, but it does not appear on a printout.
Displaying/printing hidden text
By default, hidden text is visible on a screen but does not appear on a printout. However, you can use the document's properties to specify whether hidden text is to be visible on the screen and whether it is to be printed.
To do so, select the ribbon tab File | Properties and switch to the View tab in the dialog box. In the section Hidden text, you will find the following options:
▪Show hidden text
| This option determines the visibility of hidden text on the screen. |
| This option is enabled by default. Thus hidden text is visible. Hidden text is displayed with a dotted underline to distinguish it from normal text. |
| If you disable this option, hidden text will not be visible on the screen. |
▪Print hidden text
| The option Print hidden text determines the printing of hidden text along with the document's normal text. |
| If this option is disabled, hidden text will not be visible in the printout. |
| If you want all hidden text segments to be printed, you must enable this option. |
Removing the "Hidden" formatting again
If you want to remove the Hidden formatting, proceed as follows:
| 1. | Make sure that the option Show hidden text is enabled in the document properties (see above) so that you can see the text. |
| 2. | Select the hidden text, and click on the group arrow in the bottom right corner of the ribbon tab Home | group Character. In the opened dialog box, on the Font tab, disable the option Hidden. |
The text is no longer hidden now.
