Basic questions about forms in Word 2007

[Guest]

Many of the form features in Word 2003 are not found in Word 2007. I can find
them in the Legacy Tools but it doesn't flow well in Word 2007.

Here's what I wanted to do. I'm creating a form in MS Word 2007 that involes
input text box, check box, date and time selector.

First, I can use the Rich Text under the Developer ribbon for my input
textbox. The problem is, I can't find a way to adust the heigth and width of
the box. The same goes with everything in the Controls section of the
Developer ribbon.

Second, I can't find a replacement in Word 2007 for the check box control. I
can use the legacy check box control but it won't let me choose between a
check or an X. It's not flexible at all.

Third, I want to insert a time selector, drop down, or perhaps manually
type, it doesn't matter but as long as it is able to calculate the
hours/minutes between two time. For example, I clock in at 8:30AM and leave
at 3:40PM, on the third field I want the program to be able to calculate the
time in between and list 7hours and 10 minutes or 7.16 hours.

Fourth, the form has rows for 14 days (a bi-weekly timesheet). How do I
create the form so that on the date column, it automatically list each date
for the 14 days on each of the 14 rows? In addition, in the headding, I want
the date control to automatically list something like this: 7/1/2007/ -
7/14/2007.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Graham Mayor]

There are a few issues here that are not unique to Word 2007

1. Tools from the control toolbox never sat comfortably with the tools from
the forms toolbar in any Word version.
2. The Word 2003 forms tools are all still available and work as they did in
Word 2003 - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm . The usual
ploy to limit text entry if to use a fixed size table cell (with or without
a border)
3. The forms checkbox always had either a X or nothing - it still has.
4. Word forms have never been able to calculate times - in fact calculation
of times and dates using fields is extremely complex. For a means of
calculating time differences see the last page of the linked document at
www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=249902 This same article
also explains how to calculate dates, though you may, depending on where the
information is coming from be able to use REF fields to list the Dates.
5. This document seems to be some sort of work time calculator. You might
find Excel better suited to creating such a document.
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[Guest]

Many thanks for the suggestion. I will check with the links given above. I
was thinking of using Excel since Excel it capable of calculating time
differences. The reason I back away from using Excel is the flexibility of
creating tables. I'm not very knowledgeable in Excel.

By the way, what about Infopath? Will InfoPath be a better tool than even
Excel on this task?