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Pasting Text Into Form Field In Table Changes Alignement
I have a problem with a label template. This is a simplified example.
I have a table with two rows and two columns. The columns are page width. I set each cell to center horizontally and vertically. I insert a text form field into each cell and lock the form. In notepad I create a 3 line address and copy it to the clipboard. When I paste this "address" into each field in my form the bottom left cell doesn't hold onto it's formatting. The first 2 lines become left justified. If I have press delete in the cell first the entire field maintains its centering (but I have to delete the extra spaces). In fact, If I create a 5 row, single column table and repeat the above, every cell but the first one loses its centering. I am at a lost. |
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Pasting Text Into Form Field In Table Changes Alignement
Hi ?B?TWFyayBHb3Jkb24=?=,
Right, I can duplicate the problem. Unfortunately, I don't know of any simple solution, short of using a macro to re-apply the formatting. I have a problem with a label template. This is a simplified example. I have a table with two rows and two columns. The columns are page width. I set each cell to center horizontally and vertically. I insert a text form field into each cell and lock the form. In notepad I create a 3 line address and copy it to the clipboard. When I paste this "address" into each field in my form the bottom left cell doesn't hold onto it's formatting. The first 2 lines become left justified. If I have press delete in the cell first the entire field maintains its centering (but I have to delete the extra spaces). In fact, If I create a 5 row, single column table and repeat the above, every cell but the first one loses its centering. 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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Pasting Text Into Form Field In Table Changes Alignement
Actually there is a macro re-formatting the table. As I said - this was the
simplified example. The problem is with the sending address on a mailing label template and all of the user's want to be able to choose where on the label (left justified w/offset, centered) and with what font the address appear. There is startup form that allows them to enter this information (it stores their defaults in the user's register so that they can just click enter through the screen). The macro then applied their preferences by unlocking the document, selecting all of the document, applying the paragraph and font settings and relocking the document. I have figured out a way around this but it was not completely intuitive. It appears the problem stems from the fact that a table has a default style. When the user pastes into the cell (why only in those cells is a good question for microsfofts programmer) the formatting returns to the default of the table style (kinda like pressing ctl-space). My work around was to creat a custom style for the table that the form fields are in. Then when I apply the user's settings I modify the tables style instead of simply applying manual formatting. (I had to delete the form fields before applying the custom style and re-insert them so that I guess they would be "bound" to this style - w/o doing this when I changed the tables style some -not all- of the field's fonts would become 'arial unicode ms' - I couldn't even change them manually!) 6 hours later the page is working for my users - somebody please put word out of its misery by shooting it! "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?TWFyayBHb3Jkb24=?=, Right, I can duplicate the problem. Unfortunately, I don't know of any simple solution, short of using a macro to re-apply the formatting. I have a problem with a label template. This is a simplified example. I have a table with two rows and two columns. The columns are page width. I set each cell to center horizontally and vertically. I insert a text form field into each cell and lock the form. In notepad I create a 3 line address and copy it to the clipboard. When I paste this "address" into each field in my form the bottom left cell doesn't hold onto it's formatting. The first 2 lines become left justified. If I have press delete in the cell first the entire field maintains its centering (but I have to delete the extra spaces). In fact, If I create a 5 row, single column table and repeat the above, every cell but the first one loses its centering. 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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