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Default Form with table - Extend length of table as needed by user's i

You are welcome--and thank you for the feedback.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"RogerC" wrote in message
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Thanks Stefan! The users of this form have very little computer
experience
so I was hoping for something a bit more transparent to the user; Like
having the form automatically create a new row when it reaches the end of
a
page. But I will use your suggestion and put an instruction somewhere on
the
form regarding tabing to create a row.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

I'm assuming that this is a protected form (since you mentioned text form
fields). Just leave the second section unprotected, and users can press
Tab
in the last cell of the table to add another row.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"RogerC" wrote in message
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I have a form with two sections. The first section contains Text Form
Fields. The second section contains a table with 4 columns and needs
to
have
a variable number of rows. The amount of information (rows needed)
varies
greatly from one use of the form to another. One user may need 2 rows
to
complete the form another may need 50 rows. The second section of the
form
cannot be a single continous row because the user moves to a new row
when
the
subject matter they are entering involves a new topic.

I need the table to extend to a second page of rows if the user needs
more
rows than are on the first page. I don't want to create a table with
multiple pages of blank rows already in it because the extra pages of
blank
rows will print even when a user hasn't used all of the rows on the
first
page.

Can anyone think of a good way to accomplish what I want to do?