Hi,
part of document is top secret. Needs to be blacked out, but before that characters replaced with something like XXXXXX. The only issue is that text width in each line must be the same after replacement and fonts used are unfortunately proportional.
Any hints or ideas which way to look for a solution?
I think you have a problem to do this neatly, if monospace fonts are not used.
Glenn
I knowCan use VBA and I am brainstorming any idea which direction to go to...
Just came up with an idea that might work. Can read string in each line including spaces, randomly shuffle and rewrite same string. Don't know how good is this for in terms of cryptography but for my needs it might work.
Idea no 1
You could use a macro to calculate the width of each redaction word, then replace that word with
• an inlineshape of the same width; or
• a string of characters (e.g. X) and adjust the character spacing to achieve the same width.
Last edited by macropod; 03-10-2021 at 10:39 PM.
Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]
Maybe I'm being silly, but can't it be painted over for a while? I just have a document where one part should not be seen by colleagues. So I just painted that part black.
Originally Posted by Ontoris
Unfortunately not enough. Text is seriously top secret and goal is to prevent copy paste from PDF if user is not careful enough to prevent this in pdf file.
The following macro redacts all yellow-highlighted content in a document, replacing the highlighted content with essentially empty black-highlighted blocks having the same print width.
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