Using long help texts with Text Form Fields

[inaschomaker]

I am creating a form with - among other fields - also a bunch of Text
Form Fields. I want to use the Add Help Text feature to add my own
Status Bar Text and Help Key (F1) Text. I want to use a rather long
Help Key text, longer that Word permits me. It seems like Word is
truncating my text at appr. 255 characters. I want to use a slightly
longer Help text. How can I do this?

Many thanks,
Ina Schomaker

 

[inaschomaker]

Thanks for your suggestions, Cindy. Unfortunately, they didn't help
me. I tried the Autotext feature, it didn't work. I also tried
Autocorrect, didn't work either.
I am making a template, that contains a protected form. I think
Autotext doesn't work because the form is protected. I defined the
Autotext entry with the protection off, that worked. But when I
created a new doc, based on the protected template, I saw the original
text and Autotext had not done anything. The Autotext tab was greyed
out when I looked at Tools - AutoCorrect Options.

And unfortunately it is not possible for me to use macro's. I had to
start with a company letter template to ensure the company style. And
in those templates the VBA code and macro's are password protected and
you are not supposed to change anything there. So I am severely
'handicapped' by this. My options are very limited. I think my only
option now is to condense the help text so that it will fit in 255
characters. I think my client will not be so happy with that...

And I forgot to say in my first message: I am working with Word 2003
SP3

Thank you,
Ina Schomaker