Hide if control
Hide if control
A content control hides or shows its content based on a chosen boolean value.
Area: Reporting and analytics. Status: GA. Developer relevance: high. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
- What's new in Document Reporting: Word add-in: 6:01 to 6:51, demo at 6:16 (called "Hide if logical control" there)
Quotes
- 6:16 "later on you will actually be able to set boolean expression based on the data in the data set" - Hide if data-driven expressions are not available yet and are planned for later.
Caveats mentioned
- Boolean expressions based on data set values are not available yet
Documented features match
- Use conditional visibility in the updated Word add-in - high confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573329. HideIf control
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: word-layout, conditional, reporting, body-layout
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.