Form Questions

[Guest]

I have created a form and limited the amount of characters that can be typed
in it, but if I hit enter, I can have unlimited carriage returns. Is there a
way I can eliminate this?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You can:
(1) put your formfield in a fixed-size table cell or frame so if the person
types more or hits the Enter key what they type disappears, or
(2) use a macro to intercept the Enter key and make it act like a tab key.

Both of these are covered in the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm. If you are
going to be doing much with forms, I highly recommend Dian Chapman's series
of articles.

Hope this helps,
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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

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Cynthia]

if you have set your form up with FORM FIELDS that you define, you LOCK the document. I used to create templates like this when I was working. When you opened a new document based on that template, the starting position would default to the first form field, and you type your text or numbers, etc.

Defining the field - you can set for normal text and limit the number of characters (I believe it's the 2nd window down directly under "normal text" - right hand windows (2nd down) you can specify the format of the input. You can even create HELP text as reminder (customize your own and type text in the box) and give that field a label you can recognize. It's pretty neat to use.

Cynthia