Create instructional text that erases when someone types there.

[Guest]

I'm trying to create a form in Word that is similar to the Design Templates
in Publisher, where the instructional text I type in is erased when they type
in that place. Anyone know how that can be done?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm

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Words into Type
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[Guest]

Suzanne,

I went here: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22
The article pointed in the right direction, but I want to create the form in
the header. When I follow the instructions, the "Text Form Field" is not
available. It is available if I exit the header, but not while I'm in there.
Any suggestions?

Homeschool Dad

 

[Charles Kenyon]

While you could put a macrobutton field in a header, it wouldn't do you any
good, and in a protected form you couldn't even get to it.

Would it work to put the information in the body of your form, even if you
also need it in the header? You could then use a REF field or a StyleRef
field to pull the information into the header.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you went to the article I recommended, you would see that it can be done
without form fields.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A MacroButton NoMacro field (as described in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm) will do exactly
what you want to do. It displays whatever text you have typed as the
"prompt." When users click on the field, the entire field is selected and
(provided "Typing replaces selection" is enabled), whatever they type
replaces the field.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Side note. I teach college too. I consider it a bonus if some of my
requirements force them to learn how to use Word, even if I have to tell
them how. I would just give them instructions how on to View | Header
Footer, type their name in, and hit the # icon for the page number.

Personal preference.