Creating a Form. Should I use Control or Form Toolbar?

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I've been reading some of the discussions and am a bit confused as to when to use the Control Toolbar and when to use the Form Toolbar.

I'm trying to create a form for employees to save the form to their computer, fill-in the form, run Spell Check, then email the info to the main office. I sort of did this using the Form Toolbar, but when I lock the form the button I created for Spell Check won't work. I get errors saying I need Visual SourceSafe or from another I can't turn on my spell check toolbar.

Would Spell Check work if I had created the form using the Control Toolbar?

Thanks much
Amy
 
Unless you have a good reason to do so and are familiar with vba
programming, do not use the Controls Toolbox. You can spellcheck in
protected forms by using the code at
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm.

What you are talking about - looking for - is probably what Word calls an
"online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the
links at <URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms>
especially Dian Chapman's series of articles.

Hope this helps,
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

Word Resources Page
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Amy said:
I've been reading some of the discussions and am a bit confused as to when
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to use the Control Toolbar and when to use the Form Toolbar.
I'm trying to create a form for employees to save the form to their
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computer, fill-in the form, run Spell Check, then email the info to the main
office. I sort of did this using the Form Toolbar, but when I lock the form
the button I created for Spell Check won't work. I get errors saying I need
Visual SourceSafe or from another I can't turn on my spell check toolbar.
 
Sorry. I don't know what Visual SourceSafe is. I didn't write the article or
code, I just use it, without significant problem. When you say it won't let
you bring up a SpellCheck toolbar, I'm not sure if you mean the toolbar is
there but you can't view it or if you mean it isn't there. I suspect the
latter; that your toolbar was saved (and possibly your code) in normal.dot
or someplace else.

If it was stored in your template and the template is not accessible to the
other computer, that would also explain it. Why not copy the template to the
other computer and create your new document there?
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

Word Resources Page
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Amy said:
Charles,

Thanks for the info.

I've tried the Spell check macro at
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http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm, but am
having problems creating the toolbar button.
The button shows up and works until I "lock" the form, then
1. If the toolbar is up before I locked the form I get an error message
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telling me I need to get Visual SourceSafe.
2. Regardless of whether I've saved the toolbar before locking, if I
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bring the form up on another machine it won't allow me to bring up my Spell
Check toolbar.
 
Hi Charles,

I think it might be difficult to copy the form to each computer using the form (about 100 computer in the building + quite a few outside of the building).

-- I've saved the code and the toolbar to the template.
-- The toolbar does not show up on the form if the it has been locked then saved
-- As well, TOOLS>OPTION cannot be brought up if the form is locked

Can you tell me how you do your forms?

Thank you very much for your help
Amy
 
Are your computers networked? Check out workgroup templates. For more on the
different kinds of templates and locations of templates folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

Word Resources Page
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Amy said:
Hi Charles,

I think it might be difficult to copy the form to each computer using the
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form (about 100 computer in the building + quite a few outside of the
building).
 
How is it you can use the form on a computer but it is difficult to copy it
to the computer?
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/index.htm>

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>

Word Resources Page
<URL: http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm>

See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Amy said:
Hi Charles,

I think it might be difficult to copy the form to each computer using the
Click to expand...
form (about 100 computer in the building + quite a few outside of the
building).
 
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