Hiding or Showing Smart Boundaries

Smart fields, smart clauses, read-only fields, and read-only clauses in a contract document are represented in Microsoft Word with content control, that is with a bounding box. You can control the visibility of bounding boxes using the Hide Smart Boundary and Show Smart Boundary options. The Hide Smart Boundary and Show Smart Boundary options are visible based on the Hide Content Control Border custom setting. For more information, see Admin Settings for X-Author for Contracts Advanced. The following table provides the details about which option is displayed based on the Hide Content Control Border custom setting:

Hide Content Control Border custom setting when generating or checking-in the document	Result	Menu in Work tab
True	All smart boundaries are hidden while checking-out the document.	Show Smart Boundary
False	All smart boundaries are shown while checking-out the document.	Hide Smart Boundary

Prerequisite

Ensure that the checked-out document contains read-only fields, read-only clauses, smart fields, or smart clauses.

To hide smart boundaries in a contract document

Open Microsoft Word and launch the X-Author for Contracts Advanced add-in.
Log in to X-Author for Contracts Advanced.
In the Contracts pane, go to Work tab and click the More icon ().
Click Hide Smart Boundary.
This hides all the smart boundaries.

Regardless of the Hide/Show Boundary option selected before checking in, the boundaries are displayed after checking out the document.

To see smart boundaries in a contract document

Open Microsoft Word and launch the X-Author for Contracts Advanced add-in.
Log in to X-Author for Contracts Advanced.
In the Contracts pane, go to Work tab and click the More icon ().
Click Show Smart Boundary.
This shows all the smart boundaries.