Word Forms

[Guest]

WHen I protect a form it will not work when I reopen it. I cannot use check
boxes or type ine the text feilds...It either comes up as a read only or the
protection is gone and I can move anything I want. If I unprotect to try
again I cannot go back and protect it again. I am using word 2003. ALso the
"protect form" button in the tool bar is grayed out and will not come back.

 

[Guest]

Make sure you are opening the .dot and not the .doc document. How you do
this is by going through the path such as c:\windows\application
data\microsoft\templates\ and find your .dot document there. When you open
it, then you click on the lock button again to unlock it and you can then
continue developing your form template as a developer and not as a user.
When you open up the document .doc you are using it as a user and not a
developer. Hope this makes sense.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Are you using fields inserted from the Forms toolbar or from the Control
Toolbox? (You want them from the Forms toolbar.)

What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this
in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

Hope this helps,
--

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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