Word Forms (2003) - creating a "click here to SAVE" button

[andishack]

I am creating a Form in Word for a group of people who rarely use
computers... to make sure that they SAVE their completed form, I want
to create a button within the document that they can click on to SAVE
the document... is it possible!?

 

[CyberTaz]

It's possible, but it would serve little purpose. Word already has a Save
button on the Standartd Toolbar & the user is automatically prompted to save
if they attemp to close the form or quit the program with unsaved changes
pending. If that's not enough to encourage them to save their changes I
doubt that one more button cluttering up your form will push them over the
edge Taking the time to do a little *training* of the users would be in
order.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you add macros to the document they will be flagged as a warning and
probably disabled or disabled automatically according to macro security
settings in the user's PC..

If you are supplying the form as a template you could add an autoclose macro
to save the documents created from it automatically when the document is
closed.

Something along the lines of

Sub AutoClose()
Dim sFileName As String
If Len(ActiveDocument.FullName) = 0 Then
sFileName = ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text1").Result & ".doc"
Else
sFileName = ActiveDocument.FullName
End If
MsgBox sFileName
ActiveDocument.SaveAs sFileName
End Sub


will save an unsaved document with the name taken from the content of the
formfield Text1 or save it with its already assigned name.


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