Hi Doug:
Thanks for responding. Yes, using the REF field does work. It's just that the
copyPaste Special should work, also. I've also selected the formfield. right
clicked & dragged it, & chosen "Link here". That, of course, gives me the same
result as Paste Special.
With a little more experimenting, I found that the problem exists even when I
don't have the IF field in the form. Once I tab to a previous formfield & back,
the OLE field result disappears.
I just can't figure out why the Paste Special updates when I tab out to the next
(or previous) formfield, & then disappears when I tab further in a protected
form. Does this happen with your version of Word?
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Thanks again,
Phil
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
Instead of using CopyPaste Special, you should insert a cross reference to
the text of the bookmark "name" and in the Properties dialog for that
formfield, you should check the "Calculate on exit" box.
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Phil Rabichow" wrote in message
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I'm wondering if someone could check something strange. I have Word 2003,
SP2 & all updates.
1. I enter a text formfield & call the bookmark "name".
2. I copy & Paste Special/Paste link the formfield to some point below
the
original.
At this point, it updates the way it should.
3. Now I enter three more fields somewhere in the document: a text
formfield, a formula, & another text formfield.
{ FORMTEXT } (which I bookmarked Quantity, & then the following IF
field)
{ IF { REF Quantity } 101 "{ ={ REF Quantity }*50 }" "{ IF { REF
Quantity
} 501 "{ ={ REF Quantity }*25 }" "{ ={ REF Quantity }*20 }" }" }
{ FORMTEXT }
My IF field updates fine. Then I do the following:
1. I tab to the name field & type a name.
2. I tab or shift+tab to the next field & the OLE field updates.
3. I tab or shift+tab to a couple more formfields, the name in the OLE
field disappears. The only way to get it back is to go back to the
original
formfield & retype the name.
I read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895481/en-us, which is a
description
of a hotfix from March 11, 2005, describing this problem (about a 1/3 of
the
way down the page, just before the red font). But that issue was
supposedly
resolved in SP2.
Can anyone who uses Word 2003 test this out or give me a solution?
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Thanks,
Phil