Mac OS - X v10.6.6

in iWork 8 is there something called hidden text that prevents seeing
what is being typed?  If so, how is that changed so that the typing
can be seen?  Same prob seen in Numbers.

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<a05f6001-455c-47b1-bfad-0f9331d53b68@w27g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
 Frank <gno52@windstream.net> wrote:

> Mac OS - X v10.6.6
> 
> in iWork 8 is there something called hidden text that prevents seeing
> what is being typed?  If so, how is that changed so that the typing
> can be seen?  Same prob seen in Numbers.

I already replied to your question in comp.sys.mac.system, but you won't 
see that reply here because you multi posted. 

If you send the same message to multiple news groups separately, it 
forces the rest of us to download your message multiple times. Also, it 
means if someone replies to one of your posts in one news group, the 
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If you want to post the same message to multiple news groups, please 
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This way the message is simultaneously posted to all specified news 
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On 2012-02-24 16:11:54 +0000, Frank said:

> Mac OS - X v10.6.6
> 
> in iWork 8 is there something called hidden text that prevents seeing
> what is being typed?  If so, how is that changed so that the typing
> can be seen?  Same prob seen in Numbers.

There is no program named "iWork 8".  But you can hide columns in 
Numbers.  the intent is to use it for reference numbers and such, 
material that will be calculated to produce an eventual percentage of 
total, or change of profit in a certain quarter or something.  You hide 
that column before presentation/printing.

I know of no good reason to have an option to hide text so you can't 
see what you're typing.
-- 
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us 
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. 
-- Galileo

On 02-24-2012 20:33, gtr wrote:
> I know of no good reason to have an option to hide text so you can't see
> what you're typing.

But it happens from time to time in a lot of programs when someone 
ignorantly or accidentally sets font color to the same as background 
color or vice versa.

Often when that happens, dragging a selection across it makes it 
temporarily visible.

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On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:09:36 -0500, Wes Groleau wrote:

> On 02-24-2012 20:33, gtr wrote:
>> I know of no good reason to have an option to hide text so you can't
>> see what you're typing.
> 
> But it happens from time to time in a lot of programs when someone
> ignorantly or accidentally sets font color to the same as background
> color or vice versa.
> 
> Often when that happens, dragging a selection across it makes it
> temporarily visible.

I once did a search for getting Numbers to display "spaces when zero", 
and came up with someone doing that deliberately.  He was setting an 
action for a cell value = 0 and setting the text colour to the same as 
the background.  Not the solution I had in mind, but it did show some 
imagination. :-)

-- 
Paul Sture