@dave r said:
I suppose he means he's hiding the edges.
@ntxdave, how is it that you current "eliminate the outline" on 3D text?
Switch to wireframe style, Edit Component (the 3d text), select of the text, hide the text, then switch the style back to shaded with textures. This results with only the "face" of the text (if you colored it - which I do with the pain bucket tool).
While this works, it is a pain when you have a lot of text components in the model (which I do). Thus the desire to have the ability to do these additional things.