adding a scrollbar to my text form

[Guest]

Do you know how I can add a scrollbar to my form so I don't have to limit the
text my user types in?
all of this while still having the capabilities of tabbing on a protected
form?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Do you know how I can add a scrollbar to my form so I don't have to
limit the text my user types in?
all of this while still having the capabilities of tabbing on a
protected form?

That's one limitation (among many) of text form fields: they don't support
scroll bars at all.

To work around that, you'd have to use a UserForm (a macro-driven custom
dialog). The kind of text field you can put on a UserForm does support
scroll bars. For an introduction, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm.

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[Guest]

So if I'm unserstanding you correctly, you can't have a combination
scrollbar text form?
If I had a name and then a date and then a textbox with a scroll the user
couldn't just tab to that and fill it out? Similar to what you could do on a
web site?

 

[Jay Freedman]

You understand correctly.

So if I'm unserstanding you correctly, you can't have a combination
scrollbar text form?
If I had a name and then a date and then a textbox with a scroll the
user couldn't just tab to that and fill it out? Similar to what you
could do on a web site?

 

[Guest]

ok I think I got it. I went to the Userform page like you said. But instead
of recreating the whole document again, I used the control toolbox text
control and set the right properties for scroll on and off and wrap text on a
mulitline and it works almost perfect. I'm able to protect the form and tab
from form field text boxes to the control textbox which has the scrollbars.
The downside is that the macros have to be set to a low priority so you do
get the enable disable msg. I saw in the forum there are some ways around
that but my client is happy with what he got so it's all good. Thank you for
your help Jay!