Forms

[Tom Holman]

What is the best method for creating an online form that would only allow
input in specific areas or cells? Is Word or Excel better, and where would I
find directions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In Excel you can protect specific cells; in Word you have to protect entire
sections. Which is preferable depends at least in part on which application
you are more comfortable using and in part on which application the form
fillers will be more likely to have and be comfortable with. For help with
forms in Word, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

 

[Ryito]

When I protect a document to create a form, spellcheck is disabled. Can I
re-enable spellcheck in a protected document?
Ryito

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[Tom Holman]

Suzanne:

Thank you for your feedback, the articl from Dian Chapman looks helpful
but it does not address Office 2007. When it talks about thinks like clickin
on View/Toolbars/Forms, these have all been moved and changed in the 2007
version. Anything on doing this in the newer version of Word?
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Tom

In Excel you can protect specific cells; in Word you have to protect entire
sections. Which is preferable depends at least in part on which application
you are more comfortable using and in part on which application the form
fillers will be more likely to have and be comfortable with. For help with
forms in Word, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You can add the Forms toolbar to the ribbon - see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic Form Controls.htm

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