Behavior of Text Form Fields

[Guest]

I created a form in Word 2003. Added text field boxes, some set to regular
text, some to numbers. After protecting, and trying it out, I find the
"numbers only" fields don't pop up an "invalid character" message if I type
in letters or hyphens, etc., but just changes the field to zero. So a phone
number field set at 3 numerals will accept 51-. Or if I type in dfa, it
comes up 0 but lets me tab to next field. Is this right? I looked at all
the options, but don't see any that would prevent this.

 

[Cindy M.]

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I created a form in Word 2003. Added text field boxes, some set to regular
text, some to numbers. After protecting, and trying it out, I find the
"numbers only" fields don't pop up an "invalid character" message if I type
in letters or hyphens, etc., but just changes the field to zero. So a phone
number field set at 3 numerals will accept 51-. Or if I type in dfa, it
comes up 0 but lets me tab to next field. Is this right?

This is the way it works, yes. The form field functionality is fairly
rudimentary. If you need "fancier" validation you'll need to program it in a
macro.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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