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Microsoft Word 2003 Problem
Hi all...Maybe someone can help me with this because I am about to pull my
hair out. O.K. I have a Word Doc that I need to do for my job. It is an 11 page biographical affidavit that will be e-mailed to all employees. When they receive it, they will open it up on their computer and fill it out using their computer. This doc has about 75 questions ranging from name and address to name of last job's supervisor etc. After each question I made a line they can type their answer on. I created the line by holding down the Ctrl key and then holding down the "minus" key until the line was long enough. The problem is this..when they click onto the line and start to type, the line disappears. There are over 75 places where these questions are asked and I have placed these "lines". Is there any way I can easily fix this or do I have to do it all over again? I can't tell you how many times over the years I have received this type of form in an e-mail and when I opened it I just clicked on the line and typed in the answer and then clicked or tabbed on the next line and typed that answer and the line never moved or disappeared. I have already been to the following websites which weren't much help. word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms and word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul |
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Please Fill Out This Form
Part 1: Create professional looking forms in Word http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22 Part 2: Adding Automation to your Word forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=46 Part 3: Learn more VBA (macros) to automate your forms. http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=119 Part 4: Use custom dialog boxes in your Word forms http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=127 Part 5: Connect your AutoForm to a database to save input time and keep better records! http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=136 -- 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 "Paul" wrote in message ... Hi all...Maybe someone can help me with this because I am about to pull my hair out. O.K. I have a Word Doc that I need to do for my job. It is an 11 page biographical affidavit that will be e-mailed to all employees. When they receive it, they will open it up on their computer and fill it out using their computer. This doc has about 75 questions ranging from name and address to name of last job's supervisor etc. After each question I made a line they can type their answer on. I created the line by holding down the Ctrl key and then holding down the "minus" key until the line was long enough. The problem is this..when they click onto the line and start to type, the line disappears. There are over 75 places where these questions are asked and I have placed these "lines". Is there any way I can easily fix this or do I have to do it all over again? I can't tell you how many times over the years I have received this type of form in an e-mail and when I opened it I just clicked on the line and typed in the answer and then clicked or tabbed on the next line and typed that answer and the line never moved or disappeared. I have already been to the following websites which weren't much help. word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms and word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul |
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Hi Paul
Paul wrote: O.K. I have a Word Doc that I need to do for my job. It is an 11 page biographical affidavit that will be e-mailed to all employees. When they receive it, they will open it up on their computer and fill it out using their computer. This doc has about 75 questions ranging from name and address to name of last job's supervisor etc. After each question I made a line they can type their answer on. I created the line by holding down the Ctrl key and then holding down the "minus" key until the line was long enough. The problem is this..when they click onto the line and start to type, the line disappears. There are over 75 places where these questions are asked and I have placed these "lines". Is there any way I can easily fix this or do I have to do it all over again? I can't tell you how many times over the years I have received this type of form in an e-mail and when I opened it I just clicked on the line and typed in the answer and then clicked or tabbed on the next line and typed that answer and the line never moved or disappeared. I have already been to the following websites which weren't much help. word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms and word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks Those articles you mention should be _the_ help on the subject of how you should've proceded in the first place. It's really hard to say which is the best path now without taking a look at the said document. My first try would be something like this: Setup a "line" in the manner that you like best (from the articles), then copy such a line to the clipboard (CTRL-C), and use Edit | Replace to search for your lines and replace them with the clipboard content. That would be: Search: "__________" (your old line, w/o the '"'; that was probably the SHIFT key with -, not CTRL, right?) Replace: "^c" (again w/o the '"') Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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