17.3.2.41 vanish

This element specifies whether the contents of this run shall be hidden from display at display time in a document. [Note: The setting should affect the normal display of text, but an application can have settings to force hidden text to be displayed. end note]

This formatting property is a toggle property (17.7.3).

If this element is not present, the default value is to leave the formatting applied at previous level in the style hierarchy .If this element is never applied in the style hierarchy, then this text shall not be hidden when displayed in a document.

[Example: Consider a run of text which must have the hidden text property turned on for the contents of the run. This constraint is specified using the following WordprocessingML:

<w:rPr>
  <w:vanish />
</w:rPr>

This run declares that the vanish property is set for the contents of this run, so the contents of this run is hidden when the document contents are displayed. end example]

This element’s content model is defined by the common boolean property definition in 17.17.4.