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Form creation problems
1. In a form I would like to put an autofill field that will insert the date
the form was filled in. But when it is emailed to me and I open it, I do not want the date to change to the day I opened the form(as it would if I used insert/date time/ and clicked update automatically) 2. without using excel, can I create a field in a form that will give me an age in years? I need to know the difference in years between the day the form was filled out and the birthdate listed in a field in the form. I would like this to automatically populate (like form filled out: June 27, 2007; birthdate list in another field is 6/27/2000; age field automatically populates to 7). This would involve 3 fields: today's date; birthdate; and age fields....if this is possible what would that formula be? 3. I used the forms toolbar to insert check boxes into the form- but when I practiced filling out the form I cannot get the check box to fill as I click on it- in fact I cannot click on the check box- I can only click 1 space before it or 1 space after it. I am in the process of reading Computer Companion 'please fill out this form' to see if my questions are answered- but a quick read thru did not seem to address the particular requests I have thanks! |
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Form creation problems
1. In a form I would like to put an autofill field that will insert the
date the form was filled in. But when it is emailed to me and I open it, I do not want the date to change to the day I opened the form(as it would if I used insert/date time/ and clicked update automatically) Can you incorporate a CREATEDATE field? For that to work, the user would have to create a new form from a Word template (i.e. use File|New to select a template and create a document from it, or perhaps double-click on a Word ..dot tempate file from within Windows Explorer, because CREATEDATE shows the date on which the .doc was created. 2. without using excel, can I create a field in a form that will give me an age in years? I need to know the difference in years between the day the form was filled out and the birthdate listed in a field in the form. I would like this to automatically populate (like form filled out: June 27, 2007; birthdate list in another field is 6/27/2000; age field automatically populates to 7). This would involve 3 fields: today's date; birthdate; and age fields....if this is possible what would that formula be? I may be wrong, but I don't think you would be able to do that using a formula within a Word Online Form, unless you incorporate a number of ordinary fields that use - for example - macropod's date field calculations - see e.g. http://www.wopr.com/w3tfiles/10-249902-DateCalc.zip you would have to have a macro that updated those fields. But if you have to have a macro, it would probably be simpler to do the necessary date calculation using Word VBA and insert the result (somehow or other) into your form. 3. I used the forms toolbar to insert check boxes into the form- but when I practiced filling out the form I cannot get the check box to fill as I click on it- in fact I cannot click on the check box- I can only click 1 space before it or 1 space after it. No idea what is happening there! Peter Jamieson "petlover" wrote in message ... 1. In a form I would like to put an autofill field that will insert the date the form was filled in. But when it is emailed to me and I open it, I do not want the date to change to the day I opened the form(as it would if I used insert/date time/ and clicked update automatically) 2. without using excel, can I create a field in a form that will give me an age in years? I need to know the difference in years between the day the form was filled out and the birthdate listed in a field in the form. I would like this to automatically populate (like form filled out: June 27, 2007; birthdate list in another field is 6/27/2000; age field automatically populates to 7). This would involve 3 fields: today's date; birthdate; and age fields....if this is possible what would that formula be? 3. I used the forms toolbar to insert check boxes into the form- but when I practiced filling out the form I cannot get the check box to fill as I click on it- in fact I cannot click on the check box- I can only click 1 space before it or 1 space after it. I am in the process of reading Computer Companion 'please fill out this form' to see if my questions are answered- but a quick read thru did not seem to address the particular requests I have thanks! |
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