I am writing a manual for a client's new product, and I need to hide part of the content because this bit is still in development. They need field trial documentation for a customer who doesn't need that option.
The content I want to hide begins with a Heading at Level 2 , then some Normal style text, some level 3 headings, and a few 2-column tables with images in the left hand column, and text in the right hand column. It spans 4 pages.
I know how I should hide the text, namely to select the content that I want to hide, and then Ctrl+D to bring up the Font dialog, and then select Hidden, and click OK. This hides it just fine.
But if I want to view and edit this hidden content using Ctrl+*, all the hidden content appears, but the tables are squashed into a table on the left about one character wide per column, one character per row, and the hidden content now spans 28 pages. This is impossible to work with, and I cannot adjust the column width.
The only remedy is to select each cell of the table and Ctrl+D etc to unhide the text cell by cell. If I try to select a complete table and unhide it, it only unhides one cell.
I had hoped that I could go into Outline View at Level 2, select the heading and then just hide that, but I get the same problem.
Any idea what's going wrong? Help!