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Jun 5, 2023

Hi all, I want to hide non-highlighted text in MS Word 2016, but as I often often need to perform the operation on a larger number of files at once, I am hoping to find a regex that I can apply in a batch editor like Notepad++. I would similarly need to be able batch-undo the process, though either find all non-nonhighlighted or find all hidden would work (and then replace with non-hidden in either case). Any ideas? Thanks!
 
Samuel Murray
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@Lex Jun 5, 2023

LEXpert wrote:
Hi all, I want to hide non-highlighted text in MS Word 2016, but as I often often need to perform the operation on a larger number of files at once, I am hoping to find a regex that I can apply in a batch editor like Notepad++.


See also:
https://www.proz.com/post/3000209

Also, google for "record a macro in MS Word".
 
Hans Lenting
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Two approaches Jun 5, 2023

LEXpert wrote:

Hi all, I want to hide non-highlighted text in MS Word 2016, but as I often often need to perform the operation on a larger number of files at once


All documents in a folder:
https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/find-replace-contents-multiple-word-documents/

All open documents:
https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-vba/47755-find-replace-all-open-documents.html

You will have to adapt these macros to execute the hiding task.
 


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