Hi there

I am putting together some documentation for our team at work where certain place holders in documents will require specific information. Rather than including a spearate document with instructions, I would like to put a number of prompts and defaulted text in areas that can be overwritten with the necessary information or if no information is included then when the document is printed then the defaulted text doesnt appear.

An example would be a box for 'Special Instructions'. I would like the table cell to state "Please enter any specific instructions for item delivery here, such as safe place to leave item or specific contact details". The person filling in the form can either type over that text or if they leave the area blank (no additional text) then when the form is printed then the defaulted text doesnt show on the print out.

I am currently using Controls within the Developer tab such as Plain Text Content Control, Rich Text Content Control.

Regards



Ian

See Use Date (And/Or Time) Comparisons To Vary Text in my Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...-tutorial.html
Do read the document's introductory material.

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Thanks for the reply macropod, am struggling to see the links between what I am trying to achieve with text in fields that dont show when printed unless they are amended and the tutorial supplied on date calculation and comparison.

Greg Maxey's Content Control Tools has a checkbox to not print "placeholder text" in content controls. I've found it works well.

Under the Use Date (And/Or Time) Comparisons To Vary Text heading in the tutorial are examples showing how to Use a date test to provide pre-printing instructions and/or to Show or hide instructions & graphics at print time. Did you try either of those?

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