Conditional Printing

[nickrose]

I have a large document that I need to print in different versions. Is there
any way to embedd commands/fields in the file to cause sections to be omitted
when printing. The only stuff I can find seems to apply to MailMerge, not
normal document operations.

 

[Jezebel]

There's no particularly easy method for this. One approach is to use a
distinct style (or set of styles) for each conditional section. To omit a
section from the printout, set the style's font to Hidden.

 

[nickrose]

This would be certainly be possible, but would require much manual work
allowing for many mistakes (for me, at least)....

I've written a conditional parser to operate on an rtf file, but there are
too many bug in Word's rtf import/export to use it. Shame.

Seems like many people could use such a feature, eh ?