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Hi,
I'm pretty new to word and I'm having difficulties saving a word document. The document is basically a list of questions with check boxes and text boxes from the control toolbox. When people open up the document it opens with the control toolbox and in design mode - can this be changed to open up with the form ready to be filled out? I've tried several different ways of saving this and tried protecting the document but to no avail. please help! |
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Ok - I've sorted this. It's not the forms bit I required as I am using the
control toobox options. I needed to set the security settings in macro's to medium (anything but high apparently). "TykeUK" wrote: Hi, I'm pretty new to word and I'm having difficulties saving a word document. The document is basically a list of questions with check boxes and text boxes from the control toolbox. When people open up the document it opens with the control toolbox and in design mode - can this be changed to open up with the form ready to be filled out? I've tried several different ways of saving this and tried protecting the document but to no avail. please help! |
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Instead of using controls from the Control Toolbox, use form fields from the
Forms toolbar, then protect the document. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "TykeUK" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm pretty new to word and I'm having difficulties saving a word document. The document is basically a list of questions with check boxes and text boxes from the control toolbox. When people open up the document it opens with the control toolbox and in design mode - can this be changed to open up with the form ready to be filled out? I've tried several different ways of saving this and tried protecting the document but to no avail. please help! |
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You are going to want to start over. You don't want anything from the
Controls Toolbox in your document if you are a beginner. They will, at a minimum trigger macro warnings, but also they don't work without macros, and don't work in protected forms. What you are want to be creating is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Also, you are going to want to save this as a template when you are done. To use it, you use File New to create a new document based on your template. For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "TykeUK" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm pretty new to word and I'm having difficulties saving a word document. The document is basically a list of questions with check boxes and text boxes from the control toolbox. When people open up the document it opens with the control toolbox and in design mode - can this be changed to open up with the form ready to be filled out? I've tried several different ways of saving this and tried protecting the document but to no avail. please help! |
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I am not sure how you have it saved, but if you protect a document no one
else can edit anything. They should be able to enter anything in an unprotected Word document. I hope this helps. -- Thanks, bg "TykeUK" wrote: Hi, I'm pretty new to word and I'm having difficulties saving a word document. The document is basically a list of questions with check boxes and text boxes from the control toolbox. When people open up the document it opens with the control toolbox and in design mode - can this be changed to open up with the form ready to be filled out? I've tried several different ways of saving this and tried protecting the document but to no avail. please help! |
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