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TextInput FormField, Table Cells and Mouse Clicks
Hi folks,
Does anyone have any insight to this situation: I have a Form I'm creating in Word (not my first). Let's take the simplest part of it - a Table with one TextInput Field per Cell. For layout reasons, I need to make the initial cell size large enough for about 5 lines of text. The TextInput Field is upper-left justified within the Cell, so it and its little five spaces are sitting up there in the corner of the cell. And let's say there's an adjacent cell with the same thing going on. Let's call them cell A1 and B1. A1: B1: +----------------------------+----------------------------+ | ***** | ***** | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------+ OK, now let's say you're the user, and the Form is Protected. And let's say you like using your mouse. So let's say you want to go fill in the TextInput in Cell A1. So of course we know that you're OK if you click on the five little spaces up there in the corner. However, let's say you don't know enough to do that, or let's say Field Shading is turned off so you can't even see the shading to tell you where to click. So let's say you click your mouse in the middle of the Cell, to the right and down from the TextInput field. Well, Word brings your cursor then to the *next* available Field, which would be the TextInput field in cell B1. And you're sitting there, scratching your head, and wondering how do you get to input data into Cell A1?!? Does anyone know what a common solution to this common problem is? Thanks in advance! Dave |
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TextInput FormField, Table Cells and Mouse Clicks
David,
How about default text in a1 "Click here to begin" Or you could include a macro button to run the following code (e.g., {Macrobutton Begin "Start Here"}: Sub Begin ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Text1").Range.Fields (1).Result.Select End Sub -----Original Message----- Hi folks, Does anyone have any insight to this situation: I have a Form I'm creating in Word (not my first). Let's take the simplest part of it - a Table with one TextInput Field per Cell. For layout reasons, I need to make the initial cell size large enough for about 5 lines of text. The TextInput Field is upper-left justified within the Cell, so it and its little five spaces are sitting up there in the corner of the cell. And let's say there's an adjacent cell with the same thing going on. Let's call them cell A1 and B1. A1: B1: +----------------------------+---------------------------- + | ***** | ***** | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------------------------+---------------------------- + OK, now let's say you're the user, and the Form is Protected. And let's say you like using your mouse. So let's say you want to go fill in the TextInput in Cell A1. So of course we know that you're OK if you click on the five little spaces up there in the corner. However, let's say you don't know enough to do that, or let's say Field Shading is turned off so you can't even see the shading to tell you where to click. So let's say you click your mouse in the middle of the Cell, to the right and down from the TextInput field. Well, Word brings your cursor then to the *next* available Field, which would be the TextInput field in cell B1. And you're sitting there, scratching your head, and wondering how do you get to input data into Cell A1?!? Does anyone know what a common solution to this common problem is? Thanks in advance! Dave . |
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Greg has answered your question.
-- What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "David Horowitz" wrote in message ... Hi folks, Does anyone have any insight to this situation: I have a Form I'm creating in Word (not my first). Let's take the simplest part of it - a Table with one TextInput Field per Cell. For layout reasons, I need to make the initial cell size large enough for about 5 lines of text. The TextInput Field is upper-left justified within the Cell, so it and its little five spaces are sitting up there in the corner of the cell. And let's say there's an adjacent cell with the same thing going on. Let's call them cell A1 and B1. A1: B1: +----------------------------+----------------------------+ | ***** | ***** | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------+ OK, now let's say you're the user, and the Form is Protected. And let's say you like using your mouse. So let's say you want to go fill in the TextInput in Cell A1. So of course we know that you're OK if you click on the five little spaces up there in the corner. However, let's say you don't know enough to do that, or let's say Field Shading is turned off so you can't even see the shading to tell you where to click. So let's say you click your mouse in the middle of the Cell, to the right and down from the TextInput field. Well, Word brings your cursor then to the *next* available Field, which would be the TextInput field in cell B1. And you're sitting there, scratching your head, and wondering how do you get to input data into Cell A1?!? Does anyone know what a common solution to this common problem is? Thanks in advance! Dave |
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TextInput FormField, Table Cells and Mouse Clicks
Thanks guys...
Dave |
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