Entering Text to a Form Text Box

[Guest]

I'm trying to enter text into a form text box, i.e. address or name.
Before I lock the form I can eneter text in the box afetr I lock it I can't
enter anything.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It sounds like you're using an ordinary text box rather than a text form
field.

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[Charles Kenyon]

Did you insert the text field using the Forms toolbar? Note, a text box is a
drawing layer item which does not work in protected forms.

What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." For more
about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

Hope this helps,
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Guest]

Yes ,I made the text box from the tool bar and your right it doesn't work
when I protected the form.
Thank's I'll look the enclosed links
Malcolm

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Might it be a frame rather than a text form field? If you double click on a
form field in an unprotected form it will bring up the field properties. If
it is a frame, it will not.
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[Guest]

Thanks for the response's
If I double click on the text box it takes me Visual Basic with this in a
window that is titled Progress Notes no passwords - ThisDocument (code)

Private Sub TextBox11_Change()

End Sub
I have no idea what it means. I just want to have a box the person inputting
into the form can write there name and address.
Any idea's?

 

[Anne Troy]

Skate: Close the Control Toolbox...just get rid of it. Delete the textbox
you inserted. Use the method described here:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/create_a_fill-in_form_in_microsoft_word.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

Tanks a lot Anne
I'll try it.
Malcolm

Skate: Close the Control Toolbox...just get rid of it. Delete the textbox
you inserted. Use the method described here:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/create_a_fill-in_form_in_microsoft_word.htm
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

Thank's it worked great.
But how do I keep the box format from changing when text is input. It
changes the whole form by pushing the text doww the line.

 

[Anne Troy]

Hi. If you mean that you want to field to only be permitted to take up a
certain amount of space in your document, and not allow it to change the
"size" of your document, then you need to insert your form field into a
table cells that is set for a row height and or column width of EXACTLY a
specific measure.
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Charles Kenyon]

This is _not_ a frame. It is _not_ an ordinary text box. It is a control
entered using the controls toolbox. You do _not_ want to be using anything
from that toolbox at this stage in your Word use! Use the forms toolbar and
its controls.

Look at the articles I referred you to earlier.

They include articles on keeping your data in one place without dislocating
the rest of your form.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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