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Optional Paragraphs - use Building Blocks?

I'm creating a template for a document that has several optional paragraphs.  I know how to easily use a Building Block Content Control for most of them, however, there is one place in the document where you either insert a certain paragraph or you insert nothing at all. 

How can I set up this situation so that if the paragraph isn't needed, then the content control - and the paragraph which contains it - get deleted?

I'm thinking I need to create a procedure for the ContentControlOnExit event, but I'm not exactly sure what that procedure might be.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeri

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Charles ~

Thank you so much for your help with this.  I did finally get it to work by using a building block galler content control.  If the paragraph isn't needed they select an "empty building block" that actually contains a bookmark. 

When the ContentControlOnExit event occurs Word searches for a ContentControl with the specified title and if the bookmark exists it deletes the content control, the bookmark, and the paragraph.

I probably made it more difficult than it needed to be, but it works!

Thanks again,

Jeri

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Last updated June 20, 2024 Views 869 Applies to: