Hidden Text / Conditional Formatting

Question

How do I hide text in a pages document? I use pages to prepare exams for teaching and in MSWord I used to have the answers to the questions included in the document as hidden text. How do I do this in Pages? Is this possible at all? Setting the text color to white is often not feasible because this would result in large white areas (and I would have a hard time to find my text again)

Answer 1

Maybe the "Change Tracking" feature would be a soluce.
If it doesn't, Move back to my proposal.
Save the document with the responses greyed.
open it search all item in the grey style, call my cut_sparse script
print what is the students version.
Back to the complete one, disable the grey style
print what is the teacher version.
Save the script as an Application or an Application Bundle: cut_sparse.app
Move the newly created application into the folder:
<startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Pages:
Go to a Pages document
select some text, contiguous or sparse
menu Scripts > cut_sparse
The script will put in the clipboard the selected text inserting a return between different chunks.
--(SCRIPT cut_sparse.app]
tell application "Pages"
activate
tell document 1
set sel to (get selection)
set k to count of sel
repeat with i from k to 1 by -1
select (item i of sel)
(* I didn't found an other way to remove the selected text *)
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "pages" to keystroke "x" using {command down}
end repeat
end tell
end tell
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 28 février 2008 17:24:40)