How to make word ignore a specific shape when printing?

[ZAK]

I've got a couple of shapes and text boxes on a Word document.
These shapes are simply guidelines for the user to follow.
I want these shapes to appear when editing a document but


I don't want them to print.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks.

[ZAK]

Bumpity Bump

[Ulodesk]

In Options, on the Display tab, uncheck the Print Drawings checkbox.

Best, Ulodesk

[macropod]

Originally Posted by ZAK

Bumpity Bump

A little patience wouldn't go astray. Some of us have things to do other than answering forum posts (e.g. eating, sleeping, etc.)

To see how you can conditionally show or hide content at print time, check out the 'Show or hide instructions & graphics at print time' topic in my Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial, at:
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/sho...ation-Tutorial
or:
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party

[ZAK]

Originally Posted by Ulodesk

In Options, on the Display tab, uncheck the Print Drawings checkbox.

Best, Ulodesk

Thanks, but that will remove all shapes when printing and it'll only work on my specific computer.
I've got a few shapes I do want to keep during printing and
Also, I want it so that I can print the document elsewhere in this fashion without having to alter the settings of the other computer's MS word.
Can I do this any way?

Originally Posted by macropod

A little patience wouldn't go astray. Some of us have things to do other than answering forum posts (e.g. eating, sleeping, etc.)

To see how you can conditionally show or hide content at print time, check out the 'Show or hide instructions & graphics at print time' topic in my Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial, at:
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/sho...ation-Tutorial
or:
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party

Lol, I just didn't want my post to go at the bottom of the list

And thanks for your suggestion, but I didn't quite understand it.
Here's what I found from where you pointed me towards.

Show or hide instructions & graphics at print time
An alternative to the previous example would be to hide the field whenever the document is printed, but allow it to be restored later. The following field does just that:
Your instructions go here.
To output something at print-time that isn’t ordinarily visible, you could reverse the field logic, thus:
[] – the field code is between the brackets.
Pressing F9 or print preview restores the display. However, since the PRINTDATE field doesn't support seconds, you might have to wait up to a minute before you can restore the display.

I don't understand it.

[macropod]

Did you also read the tutorial's Introduction, especially the'Viewing and updating fields' topic?

[ZAK]

Originally Posted by macropod

Did you also read the tutorial's Introduction, especially the'Viewing and updating fields' topic?

I haven't. My bad, I didn't know.
I'll read it all but will that help me do what I'm specifically trying to do?

[macropod]

Originally Posted by ZAK

I haven't. My bad, I didn't know.
I'll read it all but will that help me do what I'm specifically trying to do?

Do you suppose I would have suggested it if I thought otherwise?

[ZAK]

Originally Posted by macropod

Do you suppose I would have suggested it if I thought otherwise?

Lol okay thanks I'll read it afterwards gotta sleep now. Its 2.25 in the morning here in England

[ZAK]

Originally Posted by macropod

Do you suppose I would have suggested it if I thought otherwise?

Hi Macropod, I'm sorry it's been a long time but I've been very busy and I kinda need this done in a few days

In your "DateCalc" document, you show how to hide text when printing I believe. How do I go about implementing this to a shape. See, I'm trying to hide shapes so they don't appear when printing but they do otherwise. Sorry for my lack of knowledge regarding this.

[macropod]

The part of the tutorial you cited in post #5 shows how to do that with an inline shape (though the logic is reversed). For a floating shape object (e.g. square wrapping), the principle is the same - you just need to position the anchor between the double quotes where the inline shape now appears.

[ZAK]

Thankyou, but I can't make it work this way.

[macropod]

Originally Posted by ZAK

I can't make it work this way.

That's not much of a description to work from if you're wanting help. Perhaps you might care to enlighten us with more details...