Word Form Fields

[Guest]

Can you make the text form field not allow someone to press the enter key and
start and new line and change the lines in the form.

When the text field is inserted, length changed to 15 characters and the
protect put on, you can tab to the field, type 15 characters and it will
stop, but when you press enter key it goes down and adds more lines??

 

[Anne Troy]

You can't restrict using the Enter key without using VBA.
What you CAN do is place the field in a table cell and set the height of the
table row to EXACTLY a specific height. Then, they can still hit enter, but
they won't see anything...
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Guest]

thanks I will try this out, appreciate your quick response

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Yes, you can, but it takes vba and essentially changes your Enter key into a
Tab key when you are in the document. You can find a link to this solution
at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms. You may also want
to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

Hope this helps,
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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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[Guest]

Awesome, I was thinking this but I have not used vba just taught it for 4
years. I retired last year after being a programmer/system analyst/trainer
for 40 years and I wanted to continue help train the workforce on Microsoft
Office from my home so that I don't have to travel in my old age and spend
money on gas.

It is so cool to share info with experts. Thanks a lot I will try this out
and let you know what happens.

 

[BB]

i'm trying to create a table whereby the row heights are set at EXACTLY (in
Microsoft Word 2003), but when I specify the row height and make it EXACTLY,
when I go back to this row, it has self-changed back to "AT LEAST". I don't
know what i'm doing wrong.

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'd say that the table may be corrupt. Convert to text, copy into another
document, and then recreate the table structure.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Since you have not quoted the original question, it's difficult to tell, but
it sounds as if you are providing a solution for a Web page/site, not a
protected form in Word. In any case, you have replied to a question so old
it has scrolled off the MS server where it was originally posted.

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