Showing visibility check boxes in the Project Explorer

Choose whether to show visibility check boxes in the Project Explorer. The Project Explorer will display an enabled check box graphic () next to an object that is visible. To turn the visibility of an object off, click the corresponding check box to disable it (). This could be helpful when working with multiple objects layered on a page. For example, suppose you have two hyperlinks on a page that will display the definitions of the hyperlinked words. You might want these definitions to appear in the same place on the page, but only once the user has clicked on the corresponding hyperlink. To make it easy to work with these definitions, you can uncheck the visibility icon for one of them, while working with the other, and vice versa. The visibility icons do not affect project’s functionality while viewing it in Preview mode and does not affect the published project.

Visibility states are preserved between sessions of the Publisher.

To enable the visibility-state icon in the Project Explorer:

Select Preferences from the File ribbon. The Preferences window opens.
Check the Show visibility check boxes in the Project Explorer box.
Click OK.

The visibility state icon is enabled in the Project Explorer. Visibility states are preserved between sessions.

See also: Using the Project Explorer