reference text boxes

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I have a document that is a form template and I have text fields that are
referenced to each so the user has to only fill in certain information once
and it then is populated through the rest of teh document. It is working fine
except one text is changing the font. The text box that it is refering to is
in a larger font than I want the rest of text to be when I populate it.
Basically what I am asking can I reference actual text and not font style?
 
Is this a text form field repeated by a cross-references (REF) field? If so,
to prevent the (direct) formatting of the text form field to be reflected in
the cross-reference, you should be able to apply the desired style or
formatting to the REF field and then add the \* CHARFORMAT switch to the REF
field code. (To edit the field code: Unprotect the document, press Alt+F9 to
show field codes, make the required changes, press F9 to update, and then
press Alt+F9 again to hide field codes.)

On the other hand, if you are saying that the formatting of the fields
change when you protect the form, see this KB article:

Incorrect font is applied after a style is applied to a form field in Word
2007 or in Word 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828501/en-us
 
Hey thanks that did allow me to keep the font style I wanted, but now when I
protect my document again so I can tab through each of the text box fields, I
can no longer select it. When I am tabbing through the form fields it skips
over it because it no longer has the gray box around it. Any suggestions?
 
I actually was able to figure my problem, I was entering the wrong reference
code, so it is working great now, thanks! But I actually one more, hopefully,
quick question. On this form I am working on I have table where dates need to
be calculated;
Example:

Start Date: 7/10/2009
First Submission: Start date + 5 business days
Second Submission: start date + 10 business days

Are these calculations possible in Word. I have tried a couple methods but
run into many obstacles. Currently, since I have not ifgured out how to do
this I have just typed "Start Date + 10 business days" and so on, however
when I protect the document and go in to type actually dates it keeps coming
up in font "Cambria Math' and I can't figure out how to change it.
Thanks for any help you can give!
 
JNL19 said:
I actually was able to figure my problem, I was entering the wrong
reference
code, so it is working great now, thanks!
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I'm glad you got it sorted!
But I actually one more, hopefully,
quick question. On this form I am working on I have table where dates need
to
be calculated;
Example:

Start Date: 7/10/2009
First Submission: Start date + 5 business days
Second Submission: start date + 10 business days

Are these calculations possible in Word. I have tried a couple methods but
run into many obstacles. Currently, since I have not ifgured out how to do
this I have just typed "Start Date + 10 business days" and so on, however
when I protect the document and go in to type actually dates it keeps
coming
up in font "Cambria Math' and I can't figure out how to change it.
Thanks for any help you can give!
Click to expand...

Having Word calculate a date is actually a lot more difficult than one might
think. See http://www.gmayor.com/insert_a_date_other_than_today.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
 
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