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[DavG63]

Hi

With thanks to Bernie for his advice and assistance on my last query, I have now moved on to yet another problem!

I have a Userform in Word, with ComboBoxes which in turn populate DocVariables on my document. That's all fine and works for me as it should.

The information from the Userform is used to populate a 'service document' for each party named on it. At the moment I have slots for two individuals on the Userform and so two 'service documents' on the document, with DocVariables ready to go.

The problem I am faced with is that, if there is no second individual, the second 'service document' is still visible even though it isn't needed. What I'd like to be able to do is code it so that if the ComboBox for the second individual's name is blank - then the second 'service document' should be hidden from view. I'm at a loss how to do this myself.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks

[macropod]

You cannot reliably hide document content. Even though you can format text as hidden, or use a field code to conditionally display it. Whether the text actually remains hidden or even prints cannot be controlled this way. For example, whether text formatted as hidden is visible, can be changed just by clicking on the ¶ character on the Ribbon's Home tab. Similarly, whether text formatted as hidden prints depends on whether Word is set to print hidden text - and this is completely independent of its on-screen visibility. If you don't want content to be revealable, on-screen or in print, you need to delete it.

[DavG63]

Hi Paul

Thanks for taking the time to respond. Taking away from what you said then, would it still be possible, if not reliable, to hide the text of the second form and then choose only to display it if the ComboBox has content? If so, what code would I need to display hidden text and would that code also affect other hidden text on the document that I perhaps don't want to become visible?

Cheers

[macropod]

If you were to insert a section break either side of the second form's content (or just one before it if nothing follows that form), you could use code like:
ActiveDocument.Sections(2).Range.Font.Hidden = True
where 2 is the Section #. The real issue then becomes one of controlling the 'Hidden' property. You could do that with code like:

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[DavG63]

Someone buy this man a beer, it works perfectly

I can't thank you enough - that's shaved hours off my fruitless trial and error.