Hi Cheryl,
The nature of a fill-in field is to automatically prompt when a new
document is created. If you do not want to see the prompts then you
need to use something other than a fill-in field.
How do you want to fill in the data? Using a keyboard command to
navigate the fields? Use a locked document and navigate the fields
using your Tab key?
You can insert MacroButton fields without an active macro to create
placeholders for your data. You can then press F11 or Shift + F11 to
navigate the fields. You can also click the fields to select them and
type over them.
You should be able to use Find/Replace and replace the Fill-in fields
with MacroButton fields:
- Press Alt + F9 to toggle the field codes
- Press F5 to open Find/Replace
- Find What: Fillin
- Replace with: MacroButton NoMacro
- Replace All
- Find What: " \* Mergeformat" (without the quotes and include two
spaces at the beginning)
- Replace with: <leave blank>
- Replace All
- Press Alt + F9 to toggle off the display of field codes
The protected document scenario utilized Word form fields, found on
the Forms toolbar, and when the document is protected Tab and Shift +
Tab key will navigate the fields.
You should be able to use Find/Replace for this as well. Turn on turn
on "Use Wildcards" and your search string would be: FILLIN *
MERGEFORMAT, replace with: FormText.
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cheryl_uk said:
I need to create a document with fields that I can jump to, there
are large amounts of text that would need to be entered through
pasting that have bullets, numbering etc. it also requires styles.
I have done this through a templete, setting up the styles and all
other requirements and I am happy with the result. My problem is that
when I open a new document from the templete it stops at each of the
fill in positions. Is there a way I can disable this function or
create a macro that would stop this happening.
