Show/Hide table in footer Word 2010

Do you have the Option to show hidden text (as included in the 'Show all formatting marks' setting)?

Yes

Is it possible to do the same thing without using the hide technique, a solution that is even cleaner?

Okey cool, but how would i do the same thing using a building block as you suggested?

Thanks for the help, if you have some good links on building blocks that would be great as well, cheers! :)

This is a very comprehensive article on Building blocks. There are a couple of VBA snippets toward the end, one of which shows how to insert Building block text on to a document.

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/building_blocks_autotext.html

Fantastic, thank u! :)

How do i delete the shape after adding it according to your instructions, the line below only makes it flicker?

 ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Shapes(1).Delete

Sorry made a typical newb mistake, now i've got it to work, but i'm getting this error number 70 where it says access denied, when running these two following lines:


ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Shapes.SelectAll
Selection.Delete

Why nor stick to the method that you say worked in your penultimate comment?

ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Footers(wdHeaderFooterFirstPage).Shapes(1).Delete

Used it and it works fine, but now these lines from your suggestion throw this error, what i've done is that i've entered in a hardcoded value, but it would have been nice to know the width of the table dynamically as your solution proposes


Throwed error:

Run time error 5992
Cannot access individual columns in this collection because the table has
mixed cell widths.

Code:

 For Each col In tbl.Columns
        sngWidth = sngWidth + col.Width
 Next col

Solved it by accessing the width through the cells instead, thanks anyway! :)