How do you hide text in powerpoint?

[Kim A.]

In Microsoft Word, I can hide text in a document by clicking the Format
button, then clicking the "Hidden" box, which allows me to hide text in a
document. Looking at the document on my computer screen, the text I'm hiding
will have faint dots underneath it, indicating that it will not show up I
print the page. In Excel, I'd go to the Format option, click "Cells," then
on the Number tab, click Custom in the Category list, select existing codes
in the Type box, then type ;;; (3 semicolons), which would cause the selected
cell to appear blank on the worksheet, but the value(s) would show up in the
formula bar. If I printed the page, the value would not appear. But in
Powerpoint....well, that's where I draw a blank! Using the Help option did
not help; I read about everything I did NOT want to know! So if anybody can
help me with my question: "How do you hide text in on a powerpoint slide?"
I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks much.

 

[Echo S]

You can keep various pieces of text from printing in B/W, but not in color.
Are you printing in B/W or in color?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

There are a thousand places to 'hide' text in PowerPoint, just not within a
textbox on the slide.

Create your textbox and move it off the slide area, it will show when seen
on screen, but not in be seen during a slideshow or when printed.
You can add text to a text box on screen and set it to trigger itself in an
entrance animation, which will hide it during the show, but display it in
print and edit modes.
Add your text to the notes page, it will not print with the slide but will
with the notes and can be seen in some views
Add your text to a hyperlink and it will show when moused over during
slideshow, but not print or be seen on the screen in edit view
Add your text to an object tag and it will not show anywhere unless you go
looking for it in code
Add your text to a comment and the user can select if it should print

In PowerPoint there are 4 views to consider (as opposed to 2 in Excel and
Word): Edit (screen), Show, Notes, and print. So the question becomes, in
what views do you not want it to be displayed, and in which do you want to
see it?


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[Echo S]

Yeah, I can see that being a viable workaround. It would be a PITA, but it
would be a workaround.

 

[Echo S]

Ah, yeah. Thanks, Bill.