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[John]

Hi,

I have been asked if it's possible to have guidelines appear in our Reports
template which will disappear as soon as the user starts typing. E.g. Under
a heading SUMMARY could be some text to describe the details required in a
summary. As soon as the user starts typing the summary the guidleines are
replaced with the information the user types.

Is there some way this could be achieved?

Thanks,

John

 

[Greg]

You might try a macrobutton field. See:
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

 

[Charles Kenyon]

See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/fields.htm#MacroButton,
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm for more
about macrobutton fields.

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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




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[John]

Thank you both.

John

See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/fields.htm#MacroButton,
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm for more
about macrobutton fields.

--
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




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[John]

I have tried putting several lines of instructions in the display text and
get an error "DisplayText cannot span more than one Line!"

Is this a limitation of this method?

John

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Macrobutton display is limited to one line. Sorry.
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[Greg Maxey]

Yes unfortunately it is.

You might find something suitable in one of these links:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/document_user_instructions.htm
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Toggle_Data_Display.htm

 

[John]

I included the Instructions text and the MacroButton in a bookmark and then
had the macro delete the bookmark on a single click of the field.

Works just like I wanted.

Thanks for your help.

John