MS-Word Forms control

[Guest]

I have created an 11 page form using MS-Word2003 , for my employer.
I have aprox. 10% check-type boxes, and 90% text-types blocks.
I have password protected it. Upon "testing", I discovered that if the
"user" of the
form, presses the "ENTER" key fpr any reason, the entire form will "SHIFT"
downward. Is there an easy way to prevent this from happening? I am trying
to "bullet-proof" this form , before releasing it to the 30+ employees who
will be
typing information into many "character-number-restricted" entry points.
Thank you for any help on this !
Joseph R. Z.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9zZXBoIFIuIFou?=,

I have created an 11 page form using MS-Word2003 , for my employer.
I have aprox. 10% check-type boxes, and 90% text-types blocks.
I have password protected it. Upon "testing", I discovered that if the
"user" of the
form, presses the "ENTER" key fpr any reason, the entire form will "SHIFT"
downward. Is there an easy way to prevent this from happening?

Have you seen the tutorial on creating forms at www.mousetrax.com? And read
the information at word.mvps.org?

Basically, you have two choices:

1. You can put the form fields into table cells or Frames, with a set
height, so that if the user enters more lines, they'll just disappear

2. You can put a macro in the document, assigned to the Enter key, that will
simply not create a new paragraph when the key is pressed in a form field.
This is described in
WD: How to Code the ENTER Key to Move to the Next Field in a Protected Form
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=211219


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail