Tab directly to fill in

[Jax]

I have a form set up, but now I need to have grey boxes only - no "Click
here" or words of any type in the fill in areas. Also, when the user tabs,
we need it to skip the question and tab to the fill in areas only. Possible?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have a form set up, but now I need to have grey boxes only - no
"Click here" or words of any type in the fill in areas. Also, when
the user tabs, we need it to skip the question and tab to the fill in
areas only. Possible?

Use form fields, and protect the document for forms, as described in
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Jax]

Use form fields, and protect the document for forms, as described in
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Jax]

Use form fields, and protect the document for forms, as described in
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.


THis link does not help me get rid of the "Click Here" in the grey boxes. I figured out how to tab to each box directly, but cannot get rid of the words in the boxes.

 

[Jay Freedman]

THis link does not help me get rid of the "Click Here" in the grey boxes. I figured out how to tab to each box directly, but cannot get rid of the words in the boxes.

I have some questions that must be answered before I can even begin to
guess what you're looking at.

1. What version of Word are you using?

2. What are the "grey boxes"? If you press Alt+F9, do they change to
field codes (text contained in bold curly brackets)? If so, what is
the text of the field codes?

3. How did you create the form, step by step?

The reason I ask these things is that form fields, as described in the
article I mentioned before, don't have any text in them by default. If
there is any "Click here" text, you must have put it there by filling
in the "Default text" box in the field's Properties dialog. Assuming
you didn't do that, then the grey boxes must not be form fields.

If you're using Word 2007, they could be content controls, which do
have default text, but they aren't what I'd call grey boxes.

Please relieve my confusion, so that I can help you.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

They could well be MacroButton NoMacro fields, with "Click here..." as the
prompt.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jay Freedman]

That occurred to me, but I can't see how the OP could "set up" the
form that way and not know it.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not sure "I have a form set up" necessarily means that the OP set it up,
though.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jax]

Word 2007
The Op did set up the form, following instructions from this site (previous
questions asked), using links suggested and then, finally purchasing a book
"Word 2007 - The Missing Manual", solely for the purpose setting up this
form.

SO - I have my text that cannot be changed (the questions) and then the user
is to enter answers in Text boxes (content control). THis is a "fill in the
blanks" form.

It is the text boxes that contain "Click Here to Enter Text", which was
automatically entered when I set up the content controls.

The person who requested the form does not like to see the "Click Here" - he
wants the box to be clean of text. He has a form he received from another
company that has just the grey boxes without the "Click Here". I suspect it
is not a Word form.

If I could attach the doc for your viewing, I would, but I hope my
description is helpful.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Yes, it is helpful.

You need a macro that you run once while the form has the focus. See
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if needed.

Sub NoCCPrompts()
Dim cc As ContentControl
For Each cc In ActiveDocument.ContentControls
cc.SetPlaceholderText Text:=""
Next
End Sub

If you don't like the fact that this causes the content controls to collapse
to a single character width, do this: In any document, press
Ctrl+Shift+spacebar (the nonbreaking space character) about five times.
Select those characters, copy them, and paste them into the macro between
the double quotes. That will make the "empty" content controls wider without
putting any visible text there.