Macro | KC's Blog https://www.kjctech.net Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:21:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.kjctech.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-KC-Logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Macro | KC's Blog https://www.kjctech.net 32 32 24634607 Macro to force hidden text shown in Word https://www.kjctech.net/macro-to-force-hidden-text-shown-in-word/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=macro-to-force-hidden-text-shown-in-word https://www.kjctech.net/macro-to-force-hidden-text-shown-in-word/#respond Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:16:11 +0000 http://www.kjctech.net/?p=1684 In order to show the hidden text in your Word document you need to turn on that Show Marks & Symbols button. But for those who don’t like this button turned on at all time, you need to use a few tricks in Word to force the hidden text shown without having to press that button. The basic code in […]

The post Macro to force hidden text shown in Word first appeared on KC's Blog.]]> In order to show the hidden text in your Word document you need to turn on that Show Marks & Symbols button. But for those who don’t like this button turned on at all time, you need to use a few tricks in Word to force the hidden text shown without having to press that button.

The basic code in VBA that makes hidden text display is something like this:

ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = True

If you want the hidden text shown in a template, add the following codes in ThisDocument.

Private Sub Document_New()
    ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = True
End Sub

If you want the hidden text shown automatically in a particular document, change the subroutine name to Document_Open().

If you want the hidden text show automatically on any of new document, put the same code above into Normal.dot template on your local computer.

Check out here and here for more details but you don’t really have to. 🙂

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