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Anyone who creates long documents will find this add-in useful. No more combining or merging…. just clicks!
Susan Harkins, TechRepublic 

An amazing and essential Add-in for Microsoft Word.
Lee Garber, on CNET 

The ability to have collapsible paragraphs is essential for educators, proposal writers, and everyone else I can think of...Thanks. Really.  I needed this. 
- Jeanne Hubbard 

Whoa - this is a nice plugin!
- David Bullock 

Simply great!
- Tawanda Zidenga

It is very very useful...
- Junaid S Rabbi

More does a brilliant job of protecting us from complexity.
- Simon Lewis, Sinch

Life is complex, but our documents shouldn't be. This is a case where More is more.
- Peter Evans, lecturer

More useful than my car keys!
- Barrister

Collapsible documents have many uses. An excellent idea! It's a great way to present and organise information electronically.
- Gerard Prokop, Unilex

God dammit, now I have a reason to upgrade from word2000!!!!!! 
- John Tolhurst 

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Monday
Oct252010

Can somebody without More Add-in installed see what's inside a closed collapsible?

If you send a document with collapsibles in it another user, but they don't want to (or can't) install More Addin, they can still see the body or "content" of the collapsibles.  

There are two ways.  Both take advantage of the fact that collapsibles work by exploiting Word's "hidden text" functionality.

  1. Click on the "Show paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols" button - i.e. the button with the funny backwards-P on it in the Paragraph group on the Home tab.  This shows hidden text. 
    • Pro: quick and easy.
    • Con: Page looks awful, because so much other "rubbish" is displayed at the same time.
  2. Tell Word to always show hidden text by going to Word Options > Display and checking the appropriate box.  
    • Pro: Mores look better, though there is still dotted underlining in the collapsible body
    • Con: takes more effort and know-how to show the collapsible body, and hide it again. 
      • Tip: Add a button to your Quick Access Toolbar enabling you to do this in one click.

Both of these are "all or nothing," i.e. you show all collapsible bodies in the document at once.