Styleref hidden text

Question

Hello everyone,

I would like your advice on my predicament of using fields in word. I would basically like to know whether it is possible to reference a style that is hidden. Or more specifically to visibly reference hidden text.

I believe it'll help if I define my problem more clearly:

I'm trying to set up my equations such that I can easily reference then using 'caption'. With this, I hope to avoid using bookmarks, since I have a large number of equations. Therefore, I created a table a shown, with 2 columns. On the left is the equation caption, to which I applied a character style, called 'eqno', which is based on 'default paragraph font'. The equation number on the right is obtained by 'styleref' of this character style, and using '#' in the equation field. My approach for equation numbering would be complete by hiding the borders and saving the above as an auto-text entry.

The catch, however, is to hide the text in the left column, but at the same time, be able to styleref it on the right, and cross-reference it where ever in the document. To this end, I tried hiding it, and using white text color, all to no avail. I am particular about using this approach, i.e., using '#', so that it also allows my to align equations.

So, is there any other way to hide this text?

Answer 1

Hi,

The StyleRef will NOT pick up hidden text, whether the hidden formatting is direct formatting or part of the style. You can format it to be white and to be 1 pt. in height.

See Suzanne Barnhill's article on the field.

http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/StyleRef.htm

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Answer 2

Thanks Charles,

This gave me several ideas