Re: Revision Process
- From: R. L. <see-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:14:47 GMT
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:40:10 +0100, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Catja Pafort) wrote:
>Patricia C. Wrede wrote:
>
>> Most of the
>> stuff I've seen is useful only as a cat-vacuuming tool, and contains no
>> useful features whatsoever. The one exception had a revision-and-polishing
>> feature so useful that I fully intend to figure out a macro to make my word
>> processor do it, someday when I have an overabundance of spare time. The
>> feature was that you could take a piece of prose and mark several different
>> bits of it, then "hide" all the bits without actually deleting them, so you
>> could see what it looked like without them. If you didn't like it, you
>> could toggle them back into view, unmark some of them and mark different
>> ones, and make all the now-marked stuff vanish again, as many times as you
>> wanted. The software used it for demonstrating over-use of adjectives, but
>> you didn't *have* to mark only the adjectives.
Something like this might be done with Tools/Revisiosn/Show changes or
whatever that sequence is. Shows the old version bits redlined.
>Words 'hidden text' feature?
I simply made a hotkey macro for hiding text. I select some text, and then
instead of going through Format/Text/Font - Hidden or whatever the sequence
is, a keystroke I selected hides it. I have anohter for Unhide. I think I
could put a button on the toolbar for this macro if I wanted to.
This way I can have bits of comments hidden within a paragraph. If I had
all my comments as separate paragraphs anyay, I think this could be done
without having to select the text. By making a new Paragraph Style with a
hotkey, and setting the style to have Text Hidden.
>Because that's exactly what it will do - you mark something as hidden
>and you can toggle the view at will.
Yes. There's a button with a paragraph symbol on the toolbar already, in
most versions of Word (or a readymade button that can be put there). It
toggles paragraph marks, and hidden text, and some other things all at
once.
>
>I used to put all my comments in as hidden text, which meant you could
>have them in three foot high red letters, but if you forgot to take one
>out on the printout, it would not appear. *Very* handy.
Good idea, I'll have to try that.
>Otherwise I'd probably turn the text in question white and do
>search-and-replace with two formats: a 'pre-hide' that looks like the
>normal text and a 'hide' that's invisible.
Sounds risky one way or another. For one thing, I'd try to search for a
word, and it would find it in white ink, and I'd think the search was stuck
and go nuts.
R.L.
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