fields and underlines

I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a form
and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but not
longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I can
find no way to get both.

j lunis wrote:
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a form
and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but not
longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I can
find no way to get both.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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Hi j lunis,

Simple: Add a right-aligned tab after the field, with the tab-stop positioned wherever you want the underlining to stop, then
underline both the tab and the field.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"j lunis" wrote in message ...
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a form and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but not longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I can find no way to get both.

Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a form
and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but not
longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I can
find no way to get both.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm

Very good. Thanks to you and macropod. One hurdle. The instructions
state "the width can be adjusted by dragging the paragraph's left and/or
right indent markers." Using my example above, moving the indent marker
results in the whole line moving, thus
NAME: _______________________________________ becomes
NAME: __________________________________________
the 'name' text moves along with the indent. What am I missing?

j lunis wrote:
Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a
form and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but
not longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I
can find no way to get both.

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm

Very good. Thanks to you and macropod. One hurdle. The instructions
state "the width can be adjusted by dragging the paragraph's left
and/or right indent markers." Using my example above, moving the
indent marker results in the whole line moving, thus
NAME: _______________________________________ becomes
NAME: __________________________________________
the 'name' text moves along with the indent. What am I missing?

The comment about the indent markers applies only to lines created with
paragraph borders, not to any other kind of line. If you have any text
before or after the line, you obviously aren't using a paragraph border.

The article describes four other methods of making lines. I'll guess that
you used method 4 or 5, involving tabs. In that case, adjust the line length
by moving the tab stop markers on the ruler.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Much the easiest way is to put the field in a table cell and apply a bottom
border to the cell.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"j lunis" wrote in message
...
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a form and
can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but not
longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I can
find no way to get both.

Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a
form and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but
not longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I
can find no way to get both.
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm

Very good. Thanks to you and macropod. One hurdle. The instructions
state "the width can be adjusted by dragging the paragraph's left
and/or right indent markers." Using my example above, moving the
indent marker results in the whole line moving, thus
NAME: _______________________________________ becomes
NAME: __________________________________________
the 'name' text moves along with the indent. What am I missing?

The comment about the indent markers applies only to lines created with
paragraph borders, not to any other kind of line. If you have any text
before or after the line, you obviously aren't using a paragraph border.

The article describes four other methods of making lines. I'll guess that
you used method 4 or 5, involving tabs. In that case, adjust the line length
by moving the tab stop markers on the ruler.


You are correct. I suspect one problem is I don't know what a 'tab stop
marker' is. I see the margin ruler but that's it.

j lunis wrote:
Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
Jay Freedman wrote:
j lunis wrote:
I have spent a lot of the morning researching and playing with a
form and can't find the answer.
I want to have a line similar to
NAME: __________________________________________
with the underline at a fixed length when printed.
On the underline I want a field that can be of varying length (but
not longer than the underline.
I can get the fixed length underline and I can get the filed but I
can find no way to get both.
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm

Very good. Thanks to you and macropod. One hurdle. The
instructions state "the width can be adjusted by dragging the
paragraph's left and/or right indent markers." Using my example
above, moving the indent marker results in the whole line moving,
thus NAME: _______________________________________ becomes
NAME: __________________________________________
the 'name' text moves along with the indent. What am I missing?

The comment about the indent markers applies only to lines created
with paragraph borders, not to any other kind of line. If you have
any text before or after the line, you obviously aren't using a
paragraph border. The article describes four other methods of making
lines. I'll guess
that you used method 4 or 5, involving tabs. In that case, adjust
the line length by moving the tab stop markers on the ruler.


You are correct. I suspect one problem is I don't know what a 'tab
stop marker' is. I see the margin ruler but that's it.

Tab stop markers are marks that appear on the ruler when you set tab stops
(seems a little obvious), either by clicking on the ruler or by using the
Format Tabs dialog. There are several shapes: a thick L shape for a
left-aligned tab, a backwards L for a right-aligned tab, and an upside-down
T for a center-aligned tab (plus a few less common variants).

Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ettingTabs.htm for
explanations.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Much the easiest way is to put the field in a table cell and apply a bottom
border to the cell.


Very good. Forms seem to be working well.
This may not strictly be a 'tables' question, but once I have saved a
form as *.dot,is there a fast way to restart a form?
For example, if I ha half-way through filling out a form and want to
start over, only way I can find to do it is FILECLOSE followed by
FILEOPEN1. Any single key (or combination, CTRL-O)) for 'do-over?

You mean to reset the form? Depending on version, you may be able to reset
it by unprotecting and reprotecting, but in recent versions you have to do
this through the Tools menu, as the button on the Forms toolbar doesn't
reset the form. And of course if the form is password-protected, you
wouldn't be able to unprotect it.

There's undoubtedly a VBA command that could somehow be run. There are
ClearFormField and ResetFormField commands that could be added to a toolbar;
if you could use Ctrl+A to select an entire form, that might work. But I'm
just speculating, as I have almost no practical experience with forms.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"j lunis" wrote in message
...
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Much the easiest way is to put the field in a table cell and apply a
bottom border to the cell.


Very good. Forms seem to be working well.
This may not strictly be a 'tables' question, but once I have saved a form
as *.dot,is there a fast way to restart a form?
For example, if I ha half-way through filling out a form and want to start
over, only way I can find to do it is FILECLOSE followed by FILEOPEN1.
Any single key (or combination, CTRL-O)) for 'do-over?