Formatting Status Bar Help on Forms

[Allison Orange]

When creating a form, is it possible to have the status bar help for a field
appear in a particular color, in order to draw a user's attention to it? I
have tried formatting the auto text in that way, but when the text is
displayed in the status bar, it still appears in black text.

Thanks in advance,
Allison Orange
Systems Project Consultant
Florida Public Service Commission
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Allison,

When creating a form, is it possible to have the status bar help for a field
appear in a particular color, in order to draw a user's attention to it?

No, there's no functionality for that in Word. Too bad, really...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Graham Mayor]

If you wanted to ensure that some important point was not missed, you could
use a message box popped up from an on entry macro, which the user would
have to acknowledge before proceeding. This might get a bit annoying after a
while, but it wouldn't be overlooked You could equally use an autonew
macro in the form template to pop up a message to remind the user to pay
attention to the status bar eg

Sub AutoNew()
MsgBox "Refer to status line at bottom of screen for field entry details"
End Sub


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