J44xm said:
["Jay Freedman"; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 02:32:45 GMT]
Thanks for the link. What I was really looking for, though, is a way to
mark an entire section as not-printable, so that if I e-mail the document
to somebody and they hit the Print button, the specified section would
/automatically/ not print. Is there any way to do that, short of hidden
text (I don't want dotted-underlined text in an entire section)? Thanks
again.
The only method I can think of that's sort of automatic is to write
two macros in the document. One macro (named FilePrint) would
intercept the Print command on the File menu, and the other macro
(named FilePrintDefault) would intercept the Print button. In each
case, the macro would delete the "unprintable" section, print the
document (or, in the case of FilePrint, show the File > Print dialog),
and then Undo to put the section back.
The problem with this is that Word assumes any macro in a document (as
opposed to a macro in a template in one of the standard locations) is
probably a virus. If the user's security level is High, the macros
will never run at all. If the level is Medium, a very scary dialog box
pops up when the document opens, asking whether to disable or enable
the macros. The odds are very good that your macros won't be given a
chance to work.
Another method that might work is to put the section into one or more
text boxes (at most one page per box), and ask the user to go into
Tools > Options > Print and uncheck "Drawing objects" before printing.
This method isn't suitable at all if there are other drawing objects
(logos, pictures, WordArt) besides the text boxes, or other text boxes
that you do want to print. It's not very suitable if the person doing
the printing isn't very familiar with Word and its options.
