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About skip and hide conditions

Use skip and hide conditions to customize the document. Skip and hide conditions are available in many different areas including: paragraphs, sections, table rows and columns. They can also be used to control cell events and some cell and section formatting, as well as in styles.

Using Skip conditions it is possible to customize the document to display only the information that should be displayed and to print only the parts of the document that should be printed.

If a section, paragraph, table row or column has a skip condition applied to it the skipped items are still visible when designing or editing the document, but the items are not included when printing or when print previewing the document.

Hide refers to hiding a line, paragraph, table row, graphic, watermark or section on screen when working on the document in the Form Mode (with or without editing enabled). In some areas, such as paragraph properties, the hide condition can be tied into the skip condition so that the hide only activates when the paragraph is skipped as well. This options allows the user greater control over the parts of the document that show and the parts that print.

The Hide Action can be set to adopt the behavior of an existing skip condition at the paragraph level or for a table row/column. Set the Hide Action to Always and select the option to Hide only if paragraph is skipped to allow the Hide condition to adopt the behavior of an existing skip.

About Hiding and Skipping Lines with No Values

Skip conditions can be built to automatically remove blank lines from printed versions of documents. Rather than building a skip condition based on the line contents, the Skip Print drop down has several predefined conditions which will do so automatically.

The Hide Action can be set to adopt the behavior of an existing skip condition at the paragraph level or for a table row/column. Set the Hide Action to Always and select the option to Hide only if paragraph is skipped to allow the Hide condition to adopt the behavior of an existing skip.

Sample skip condition

1. Create a check box cell, for example numbered C1.
2. Create the applicable content in the document.
3. Drag the pointer to select the content.
4. On the Home tab, click Section. The Section tab displays by default.

5. In the Skip Condition box, create a skip condition to skip the section if the check box has a value of zero.

   The skip condition is as follows:

   C1<>1

   Check boxes that are selected have a value of one and when cleared have a value of zero. Therefore, if the user checks the box the content will display and print, and will remain hidden while the box is clear.