Can I Hide a Whole Paragraph Using Conditional Text Automation in Microsoft Word
I Have a Ms Word Document Shared Between Different Projects. Some Paragraphs Only Apply to Some Specific Projects, So I'd Like to Hide Them Using Custom...
I have a MS Word document shared between different projects. Some paragraphs only apply to some specific projects, so I'd like to hide them using custom fields.
I found this interesting page explaing how to insert conditional text. However, this makes it possible to hide a small piece of text, in my case, it's a whole paragraph I'd like to hide, including possible tables, pictures...
I found to way to transform
IF "<< Matter.CustomField.Pleading >>" = "guilty" "The defendant pleads "guilty"." "The defendant pleads "not guilty"."
into
IF "<< Matter.CustomField.Pleading >>" = "guilty"
"The defendant pleads "guilty"."
including images, tables
ELSE
"The defendant pleads "not guilty"."
including images, tables
ENDIF
is it doable (Note that I'd like to avoid using macros, if possible)
1 Answer
It isn't obvious, but you're able to embed images and charts within the IF field in Word itself! For example:
IF "[Your Field]" = "guilty" "[text if guilty][image][chart][text]" "[text if not guilty][image][chart][text]"
That will evaluate [Your Field], and if it equals "guilty" it will display all the text, images, whatever is between the following quotes. If it doesn't equal guilty it'll show whatever text and images is between the final quotes.
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