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Working with Calculations in Word
I have a simple Word form that we use to capture costs by year. It is a
protected document with fields that are for input and fields that are locked. We use a table for the user to enter costs by year. The table is 3 years (wide) and 5 rows (tall) with row and column totals. The totals are protected so the user can't edit. The totalling seems to work fine for most however there are a few individuals where the totals are blank no matter what. We guide users to use tab/shift-tab through this table in order to trigger the calculations. Again, this works for most. If the totals work on one pc and the saved doc is sent to a pc where it does not work then the totals disappear as soon as that user presses the tab/shift-tab. First guess is that this is an application setting somewhere in Word that I can't pin down. Has anyone seen/resolved this type of behavior? Regards. |
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Hi ?B?V29yZE5vdmljZQ==?=,
My best guess would be that the form fields specify numeric formatting? And that these number formats are perhaps not exactly the same as the number formats defined in the Windows Control Panel's regional settings? So Word would be seeing the numbers it should be totalling as text, rather than numbers... I have a simple Word form that we use to capture costs by year. It is a protected document with fields that are for input and fields that are locked. We use a table for the user to enter costs by year. The table is 3 years (wide) and 5 rows (tall) with row and column totals. The totals are protected so the user can't edit. The totalling seems to work fine for most however there are a few individuals where the totals are blank no matter what. We guide users to use tab/shift-tab through this table in order to trigger the calculations. Again, this works for most. If the totals work on one pc and the saved doc is sent to a pc where it does not work then the totals disappear as soon as that user presses the tab/shift-tab. First guess is that this is an application setting somewhere in Word that I can't pin down. Has anyone seen/resolved this type of behavior? 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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