Question on Best Way to enter dates

[Kim K]

Here is my scenerio. I am designing forms for our school, these forms will
be uploaded a state run web site for folks to fill in regarding their
students. I have everytihng done except all the dates fields. The dates will
not only be todays date, but last conference date, Date of birth, date of
next meeting etc. So you see that there are many variations of dates to be
entered. I tried the popup calendar and I can get it to work but my problem
is the macros that will not run unless the user chages their macro settings,
which I think miht be controlled by GPO in other districts disabling that.
I think that I can get it digitally signed, but wilthat take care of the
problem? BTW - all users will be Office 03 or 07 users, but not all
districts have applied the compatibility pack therefor I have to create the
frm in a 97-03 format for all users.

I thought I could do three fields for month, day, year.....but the over 25
entried in the day field will limit me and then subject me back to a combo
box but that takes me back to a macro that will have to run as above.

Any other ideas?

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you want to avoid macros then simply set the form field types as Date.
Set a formatting style to the field and let the users enter their own dates.

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[Kim K]

Thank for your help, I have another questin or 2 tho:

1. will the date picker work with office 03 with the file format
convertors?
2. What does an exclamation mark on the document icon mean?
3. Were you referring to a text form field that is set as date type?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Thank for your help, I have another questin or 2 tho:

1. will the date picker work with office 03 with the file format
convertors?

No - you need to create in Word 2003 format and use only legacy form fields.

2. What does an exclamation mark on the document icon mean?

It's Word 2007 format and contains macros

3. Were you referring to a text form field that is set as date type?

Yes


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