Comments on: How to hide text in MS Word 2007

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:05:37 +0000

“M said on : August 28th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Hey! Text will still be visible if Show/Hide is activated (Ctrl + *)”

Great tip!
For word counting purposes, to see if I still had room for that little extra bit of bright ideas I was trying to find a way to keep it visible with Word 2007 and could neither do it (for some reason Shift+Crtl H was highlighting the text, although highlight was set for Crtl+alt H) nor could I find help on… hum… Help.
Awsome, thank you very much!

By: Serge

Serge — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:19:18 +0000

@Martino – you need to look for “Hidden” as akishore explains (but not Show/Hide Hidden Text).

By: Dr. Jo-an Baldwin Peters

Dr. Jo-an Baldwin Peters — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:55:49 +0000

Am tring to do a CD where opening hidden text is an option for the viewer. In some documents I have read there appears to be a balloon that you can click to view the additional information if you wish.

By: waydaws

waydaws — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:52:53 +0000

If one suspects there is hidden text, one can always extract the ascii/unicode text (strings), or look at it with a hex editor, etc. It’s some level of protection, but I wouldn’t be hiding anything *really* sensitive.

By: Happy

Happy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:54:14 +0000

I am trying to understand why you’d ever need hidden text in a document. Anyone?

By: akishore

akishore — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:50:03 +0000

Martino, if you right-click on the Quick Access Toolbar in Office and choose “Customize Quick Access Toolbar”, you can browse through all the commands available and see if Show/Hide Hidden Text is an option. If not, then you’re out of luck! Thanks.

By: Martino

Martino — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:32:52 +0000

Great article, so I’m hoping you have a solution to my problem as well: Is there any faster way of unchecking the “Show hidden text” option, then of having to click: Start button -> Word Options -> Display -> Checkbox -> OK
Can this command by added to the quick access bar somehow?
Thanks!

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By: John

John — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:18:21 +0000

Show/Hide does not affect whether hidden text is displayed or not. It just controls the display of formatting marks like end-paragraph etc.
But there is an option to view hidden text. In Word 2003 this is at Tools | Options | View | View Hidden Text (iirc), in Office 2007 it is at Office Button | Word Options | Display.
So you should not rely on hidden text not being visible to a person you give the document to.

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By: M

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:14:47 +0000

Hey! Text will still be visible if Show/Hide is activated (Ctrl + *)

By: Yusuf Kaydawala

Yusuf Kaydawala — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:52:10 +0000

Great Article. Thanks