Hello all,



I'm wondering if this is possible, similar to how in excel you have pivot tables and you only display what is selected.

So let's say I have text relating to three items "item A", "item B", "Item C"

I want to be able to label paragraphs relating to their respective items, and then later on, lets say I ONLY want to see items related to item A, the other paragraphs should be hidden.

Is this possible using content controls? maybe it doesn't need to be hidden (although that is ideal) but perhaps highlighted in some way?

I've been reading the forums and internet, i see perhaps ContentControlOnExit might be the solutiong, but I cannot figure out the bookmarks or content control stuff myself.

Appreciate the help!

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example.docx (20.2 KB, 8 views)

Most of the time, the techniques you'll see described for conditionally displaying content involve changing the content's formatting to/from 'hidden text'. That is unreliable as the user may have Word set to display hidden text (which you can do just by clicking on the ¶ symbol on the Ribbon's Home tab) and/or to print hidden text (which Word can do even when you can't see it on screen). The only 100% reliable way is to not store the text in the document body. Depending on your requirements, you might instead store it in a document property, a document variable, another document, or even in some VBA code. Without knowing which approach you'd prefer to take, we can't give more specific advice. Read up on the alternatives, then let us know how you'd like to proceed.

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¶ one is not a problem, but maybe print hidden text would be, people would want to review it offline since sometimes there are large documents. If if there are settings in word to NOT print hidden text then this could still work.

i looked at the other options, honestly i'm not too familiar how they work so I can't tell which one would be best. I think my requirements are that the text has to be in the document body as I use it to review with other people

So i managed to find a solution online that kind of works, but not fully. Please see attached.

This would let me hide and show individual sections one at a time. What I'm looking for is a way that I can highlight multiple text with labels and then hide multiple sections at the same time.

Sometimes, some sections will be applicable to multiple checkboxes. This is very important. The same text may need to apply to every single scenario

Hope this makes sense.

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ShowHideTable.doc (48.0 KB, 6 views)