How do you create Show All/Hide All like in MS Help apps?

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September 25, 2009
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I tried Peter Grainge's Show All/Hide All One-Button method, and it's great. But I want an updated look with a link and the +/- signs, just like the Help in Microsoft applications (example: MS Word 2007, Change or Set Page Margins topic). Don't have coding experience, and wonder how to implement that?

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carolcgsAuthor

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Still looking for an answer: how to modify Grainge's One-Button method for the Show All/Hide All button so that it visually displays the +.gif with Show All link and - .gif with Hide All link, rather than the gray Show All and Hide All buttons in Grainge's solution.

--Carol

Peter Grainge

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What Carol wants is a + button instead of a Show All button but then to have a link alongside that says Show All. That would require different scripting so I have suggested a graphic " + Show All "

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Pete_Lees

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Hi, Carol,

A long time ago (pre-Office 2007), I extracted from a Microsoft Help file the JavaScript file that provides exactly this functionality, and used it in one of my own Help projects. The script is rather complex and runs to several hundreds of lines of code, but I can send it to you off-list if it's of any interest.

If you have the Microsoft Help 2.0 runtime components installed, you should be able to use a tool like FAR to look inside the Word 2007 Help file and retrieve the script file.

http://helpware.net/mshelp2/h20.htm

http://helpware.net/FAR/index.html

Pete

Captiv8r

Brainiac

Hi there

In addition to what Pete said, you should also investigate Peter's site a bit further. He has a section where he describes adding a "twisty" to the link. The twisty may be any image you choose. So you could create the images you need quite easily and use them to accomplish your goal.

Cheers... Rick