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Editing portions of text in a form field
I have created a form with drop downs/ tick boxes etc.. and some areas to
fill in text. My colleagues are compaining that when they need to edit text in this field they are unable to select just a few words to delete/ overwrite. Is there any way of making a text field easy to edit? |
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Editing portions of text in a form field
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I have created a form with drop downs/ tick boxes etc.. and some areas to fill in text. My colleagues are compaining that when they need to edit text in this field they are unable to select just a few words to delete/ overwrite. Is there any way of making a text field easy to edit? If the form fields are in a table, then the answer is NO. There's a long-standing bug in Word that won't allow you to select text "properly" in the form field. You'd have to either - rebuild the form using Frames instead of a table - create a macro that will let the user work with the text in a UserForm (dialog box) - use ActiveX controls (from the controls toolbox) instead of form fields. But these have other limitations (trigger macro security and don't conform to the document's text flow, for example). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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