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Constructing an offline blank / form in WORD
Hello All,
I like to construct a form in WORD for a paper version (so not to fill out on computer directly). As this document shall gain a very professional look, open fields (where respondents e.g. fill in a number) should be designed adequately. Just think of these fields which look like the letter U. ( |________| ) So I first started to draw these fields by myself, but then the positioning of these elements is a longsome action :-) So I like to use a font, but I found no characters within the fonts where the elements fit together perfectly... To cut a long story short, does anyone know a nice possibility to construct those fields with a character set or font? Thanks a lot, Thomas |
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You might try using 2514 and 2518 from the Box Drawing character subset in
Insert | Symbol. You'd have to lower the characters (Format | Font | Character Spacing) and probably increase the font size. When you get it just right, you could save as an AutoText or formatted AutoCorrect entry. Alternatively, you could use the { EQ \x \bo \le \ri ( ) } field. Experiment with the number of spaces to get the desired box width; for more see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm -- 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. wrote in message oups.com... Hello All, I like to construct a form in WORD for a paper version (so not to fill out on computer directly). As this document shall gain a very professional look, open fields (where respondents e.g. fill in a number) should be designed adequately. Just think of these fields which look like the letter U. ( |________| ) So I first started to draw these fields by myself, but then the positioning of these elements is a longsome action :-) So I like to use a font, but I found no characters within the fonts where the elements fit together perfectly... To cut a long story short, does anyone know a nice possibility to construct those fields with a character set or font? Thanks a lot, Thomas |
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Construct you document using a table. Then use no borders on "cells" where
you have labels. Show the borders on the 3 isdes of the cells which are the fields. Tables are very flexible and esily adjusted to make the types of forms you want. By highlighting just one row, you can mkae cells different widths than other rows to psoition things nicely left ot right. Split cells to add more in a row, Merge if you need less. You can drag a bottom border down if you want it to space more vertiacally. Let us know if this helps. " wrote: Hello All, I like to construct a form in WORD for a paper version (so not to fill out on computer directly). As this document shall gain a very professional look, open fields (where respondents e.g. fill in a number) should be designed adequately. Just think of these fields which look like the letter U. ( |________| ) So I first started to draw these fields by myself, but then the positioning of these elements is a longsome action :-) So I like to use a font, but I found no characters within the fonts where the elements fit together perfectly... To cut a long story short, does anyone know a nice possibility to construct those fields with a character set or font? Thanks a lot, Thomas |
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