Page jumps forward when clicking on the background of a form docum

[Sheena]

I've created a form with input fields, and dropdowns. After I fill out an
input field, if I click outside of the field on the background of the
document, word jumps forward in the document. This varies from 3 full pages,
to only a few lines.

Does anyone know why this would be happening?
Thanks.

 

[Jay Freedman]

It's working as designed.

The effect of protecting a form is that the cursor cannot be placed
anywhere outside the form fields. If you click in a protected area,
Word moves the cursor to the *next* form field, no matter how far away
that might be.

Although it's improbable in a form you created yourself, there could
also be a macro that changes which field is "next", as discussed in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/SetTabOrder.htm.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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