Basically to clarify a little more lets try this:

This is a sample document that would feature the functionality I'm looking
for.

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/cs_gfw/1.JPG">

Here we have a list of items in a Rich Text format from the developer menu,
and can still be edited by your normal word user (does not need to code
anything).

I would like to be able to use the button to hide such text similar to this:

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/cs_gfw/2.JPG">

But since this rich text cannot be assigned a NAME, this will not work.

If there is a way to do it, it should yield a result such as:

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/cs_gfw/3.JPG">

- Ryan

Content controls do let you manipulate their visibility, text, and so
forth, but the syntax is a bit different from the old controls.

Unless I'm missing something (a good possibility), you can't address a
content control directly by its .Title, .Tag, or .ID property, only by
its index within the document, and that may change as the document is
edited. That means the only reliable way to address a particular
control is to iterate through the collection, checking each one's .Tag
or .ID (the .Title isn't unique, and the .Tag is unique only if you
assign them that way) until you find the one you want.

To toggle a content control's visibility, you can do something like
this:

   Dim cc As ContentControl
   For Each cc In ActiveDocument.ContentControls
       If cc.Tag = "rt1" Then
           cc.Range.Font.Hidden = Not cc.Range.Font.Hidden
           Exit For
       End If
   Next

There is no .Value property; instead you use cc.Range.Text. This is
true for dropdowns and combo boxes just as for text controls.

To change a dropdown's value, you can use something like this:

   Dim cc As ContentControl
   For Each cc In ActiveDocument.ContentControls
       If cc.Type = wdContentControlDropdownList And _
                cc.Tag = "dd1" Then
           cc.DropdownListEntries(3).Select
           Exit For
       End If
   Next

(If you try to access the .DropDownListEntries property for a content
control that isn't a dropdown  or a combo box, you'll get an error.)

I would avoid ActiveX controls like the plague. They're far more
trouble than they're worth. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnword2k2/html/
odc_activeX.asp
for details of the ones that are available within Word. If you import
VB controls such as the Rich Text Box, you'll need the development
license to be able to put them in, and then you'll have to distribute
the .dll or .ocx that contains them (but other users don't have to
have VB, just the distributed file).

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP        FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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