It will work *only* if the forms protection is turned off. Content controls
don't really like forms protection, which is why you were having a problem
in the first place.
To protect the parts of the document that should not be edited by users,
after creating all the content controls you need, select the whole document
(Ctrl+A) and click the Group button on the Developer tab. Now only the
content controls will be editable.
silverwoman35 wrote:
When complete, this form needs to be a template. Will the advice you
offer still work if document protection is turned off?
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
silverwoman35 wrote:
I'm working on a form that includes both Word 2007 Content Controls
as well as legacy form fields from Word 2003.
The form path is: filling out several content control fields, then
the legacy checkbox fields, then more content control fields.
Problem: after filling out the legacy checkbox fields, cannot add
text to the content control fields that follow.
Do you have any advice on fixing this problem?
Replace the legacy check boxes with content controls, and remove the
forms protection. Greg Maxey has an add-in at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Custom_CC_Checkboxes.htm just for that
purpose.
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