As you have discovered the new Word 2007 controls are somewhat limited. If
you want a more complex form you are going to have to use a protected form -
or you could create as userform to gather your data, perform your
calculations and populate the form For the basics, see Word MVP FAQ -
Userforms
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms.htm
for a more in depth explanation, see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create_and...a_UserForm.htm
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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www.gmayor.com
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dewaaz wrote:
Hi
I'd like to use forms in Word 2007 to create some fields where
numbers are typed in, and then another field gets updated at the
bottom of the page with the sum of all the previous numbers.
This can be done in Word 2003, and even in Word 2007 through legacy
controls - fine - but to use legacy controls in 2007, the document
must be protected.
In Word 2007, dropdown lists don't require the document to be
protected - great! But Word 2007 doesn't seem to allow fields where
numbers are inputted and a total given elsewhere - it seems like
legacy controls must be used. But then because they are legacy
controls, the document needs to be protected.
Is there a way to get numbers in some fields and totals outputted
somewhere using native Word 2007 functionality, and not legacy
controls? I ask this because then I would not need to protect my
document. I can do this with dropdown lists currently, but there
doesn't seem to be a way to have the sums and totals using numbers,
unless legacy controls are used.
I amaware of being able to protect portions of a document using
section breaks, but I want to allow editing of a table in which
contains controls - in short, I just want to be able to create a form
with no protection - which can be done with dropdown lists - but I
want to have controls for manipulating numbers WITHOUT having to
resort to legacy controls (which require protection).
Thanks to whoever can help 