[dba-Tech] Word question

It is not possible to inform the users that the data you want can be viewed
by clicking on the funny button on the toolbar?  I know it is a hassle to
have to turn on and off the hidden chars, but macros are also a hassle.

The issue with Macros is that they may be disabled by the user and then you
loose out on your data anyway.
How many users are you talking about, 10's, 100's, 1000's, ?  Is the version
of word also an issue?

If you are distributing a word doc, would it be an option to distribute two
docs, one with instructions in it to either a) enable macros or b) display /
hide the chars.

Mark


2008/9/19 Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com>

> >
> > Why not use the hidden attribute of fonts.  This will hide the characters
> > and they will never print,
>
> ========Because then the user can't find the bookmarked spot. :) I'm using
> this value as a variable that a field code references. If the user can't
> see
> the value, the user can't change the value. After thinking about this a
> little last night, I think I will change it a bit -- too many little
> gremlins to make this truly a good technique. I like the field code list
> part, but I'm going to have to find a better way to solicit the number of
> items in the list from the user. I can hard-code it in the list, but that
> doesn't make for a versatile list. I guess I'm just going to create a short
> macro that prompts for the number, but then I'm not sure how to store it so
> that the field code REF can access it. Can I do that? Can REF access a
> module-level variable? I'll have to try that.
>
> Susan H.
>
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