Customizing Forms

[Jess]

Hi - Anyway to have an entire word form locked except for a couple of fields
- that are open for input?
For example: If I create a fax form that gets populated with the employees
info - the employee downloads the form - the entire form is locked except for
open fields on who the fax is to, how many pages, and comments area?

Jess

 

[JR Hester]

You just described the word "form" exactly. INsert form fields wheer you want
the user to input information, then protect teh document for form fill-in.

If using 2007, form tools are only on the devloper tab. The protect document
tools are on the review tab.

Earlier versions placed the protection on the tools menu

HTH

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and
especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jess]

Can spell checker work for the unprotected fields in the document?

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm

However if you want the full editing facilities of Word you should consider
a different approach Use instead a userform to collect and insert the data -
For the basics, see Word MVP FAQ - Userforms
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms.htm

for a more in depth explanation, see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and_employ_a_UserForm.htm

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My web site www.gmayor.com

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