[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yeah, I would have added that if I'd had the link handy--figured you or Greg
would be by soon enough to do so!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Better still install Greg Maxey's add-in which restores the familiar Forms
toolbar commands to the Developer Tab
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
That would be the part where I said, "though you can add it to the
QAT; it's under All Commands as Lock." g


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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There is a simpler way for just protecting and unprotecting forms
that already exist. In Word 2007, go to Office button Word Options
Customize. Set the category dropdown to Commands Not in the Ribbon.
Select the Lock command and click the Add button to put it on the
Quick Access Toolbar. The Lock button toggles forms protection, just
like the one on the Forms toolbar in Word 2003.

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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:55:50 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

You have to protect the document, and Word 2007 does make this
unnecessarily
difficult. If you plan to be working with form fields, you need to
first enable the Developer tab, which you do by checking the box
for "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon" in Office Button | Word
Options | Popular. Then, on the Developer tab, you will see, in the
Controls group, a
button for Legacy Tools, which opens some palettes that include the
Legacy Forms tools. Alas, the padlock button to lock/unlock forms
is not among that group
(though you can add it to the QAT; it's under All Commands as Lock).
Instead, you must use Developer | Protect Document | Restrict
Formatting and
Editing, which will open the Protect Document task pane, in which
you must check "2. Editing restrictions," then select "Filling in
forms," then click
"Yes, Start Enforcing Protection." Whew!

To be fair, you can access the same Protect Document button (and
the task pane) from the Protect group on the far right end of the
Review tab, but you
do need to add the Developer tab if you're actually going to be
creating new
forms using the legacy form fields (or, for that matter, the new
content controls).

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

"Peter Hansen" wrote in
message ...
I would like to get some help myself and I saw macropod's name and
remembered
that he had helped me befo I just upgraded from office
professional 2003
to office professional 2007. I had created a form in Word 2003 with
cross-references and bookmark names that worked great. In order to
move from
one form field to the next I would hit "tab." But, in order to do
so, I had
to do something first like lock the document or lock the fields,
otherwise
by
hitting tab I just rearranged the form by pushing the form field
to the right
instead of going into the next field so that I could type in it. I
can't
seem to find the same button to hit in order to lock the document
so that
I
can tab through and enter the information in the various fields. How
do I
do
this in Word 2007?

"macropod"

Hi David,

Instead of linking the formfields (which is quite simple), why
not use cross-references to their bookmark names
(Insert|Cross-Reference Bookmark), or create a formula field
(Insert|Field Formula) if you're trying to do maths?

To link one formfield to another, simply set its type to
'calculation' and insert the relevant equation (referencing the
source formfields) or, for text, use REF Text1 (where 'Text1' is the
source formfield's name.

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macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"David" wrote in message
...
Aren't there any proper help files for Microsoft products
anymore? I opened
help, clicked on 'Can I link form fields within a word
document?' and got
sent to this discussion group which then has links to other
sites with
vaguely related stuff, most of which is out of date. If I just
wanted a
bunch
of links related to the topic I could just Google it. Is there
anywhere
I can
find proper help files or a manual?