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I might have initially done this the wrong way.
I needed a lot of little labels or tags. To do this I created a table and put a text box in each wit hthe requisite text. Now I need to change the text and I cannot do a global find/replace on the text in the text boxes. Question 1: Is there a way to change text in all the text boxes using find/replace? Question 2. Is there a way to have a lot of text boxes mirror the text in a "master" text box so that if I type text in one box it will replicate in all the other text boxes? Thanks! |
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My question: Why did you put text boxes in the table in the first place?
As for your questions: 1. Replace should work if you use Replace All. Word won't find text in text boxes until after it has searched the main document, but it will find it. 2. If you bookmark the text in one place, you can use a REF field to repeat it elsewhere, but a REF field may not be able to "see" text in a text box. Which brings us back to: Why are you using text boxes instead of just the table cells? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... I might have initially done this the wrong way. I needed a lot of little labels or tags. To do this I created a table and put a text box in each wit hthe requisite text. Now I need to change the text and I cannot do a global find/replace on the text in the text boxes. Question 1: Is there a way to change text in all the text boxes using find/replace? Question 2. Is there a way to have a lot of text boxes mirror the text in a "master" text box so that if I type text in one box it will replicate in all the other text boxes? Thanks! |
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On Oct 29, 9:33*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
My question: Why did you put text boxes in the table in the first place? As for your questions: 1. Replace should work if you use Replace All. Word won't find text in text boxes until after it has searched the main document, but it will find it. 2. If you bookmark the text in one place, you can use a REF field to repeat it elsewhere, but a REF field may not be able to "see" text in a text box.. Which brings us back to: Why are you using text boxes instead of just the table cells? Well, I needed little dark edges around the words, but not on the edge of the cells. So I made the text box with a border and then made the cells borders invisible. I guess there might have been other ways. While waiting for an answer, I went a different route and made a table with some cells blank. I made the blank cells narrow or thin, depending on whether they were beside or above/below a cell with text in it. so the cell (or box) with text in it is surrounded by blank cells. Seems to work fine. Probably more flexible than the first attempt. Thanks for your help. M |
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FWIW, you can add a border to the text inside the cell instead of to the
cell. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... On Oct 29, 9:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: My question: Why did you put text boxes in the table in the first place? As for your questions: 1. Replace should work if you use Replace All. Word won't find text in text boxes until after it has searched the main document, but it will find it. 2. If you bookmark the text in one place, you can use a REF field to repeat it elsewhere, but a REF field may not be able to "see" text in a text box. Which brings us back to: Why are you using text boxes instead of just the table cells? Well, I needed little dark edges around the words, but not on the edge of the cells. So I made the text box with a border and then made the cells borders invisible. I guess there might have been other ways. While waiting for an answer, I went a different route and made a table with some cells blank. I made the blank cells narrow or thin, depending on whether they were beside or above/below a cell with text in it. so the cell (or box) with text in it is surrounded by blank cells. Seems to work fine. Probably more flexible than the first attempt. Thanks for your help. M |
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On Oct 30, 8:12*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
FWIW, you can add a border to the text inside the cell instead of to the cell. That would be exactly what I need. How would I go about it? I suspected I wasn't doing the right thing, but I didn't know what exactly would have been right. Newsgroups to the rescue! |
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Select the text; in the Borders and Shading dialog, make sure that Paragraph
is selected rather than Cell under "Apply to." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "MikeB" wrote in message ... On Oct 30, 8:12 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, you can add a border to the text inside the cell instead of to the cell. That would be exactly what I need. How would I go about it? I suspected I wasn't doing the right thing, but I didn't know what exactly would have been right. Newsgroups to the rescue! |
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If by "text box", you mean a Text Input FormField as used in a document that
is Protected for Filling in forms, you would need to unprotect the document to use the EditReplace facility. You can if necessary then reapply the Protection. To see how to have data entered into such formfields be repeated in other places in a document, take a look at: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm -- Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid, professional basis. "MikeB" wrote in message ... I might have initially done this the wrong way. I needed a lot of little labels or tags. To do this I created a table and put a text box in each wit hthe requisite text. Now I need to change the text and I cannot do a global find/replace on the text in the text boxes. Question 1: Is there a way to change text in all the text boxes using find/replace? Question 2. Is there a way to have a lot of text boxes mirror the text in a "master" text box so that if I type text in one box it will replicate in all the other text boxes? Thanks! |
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On Oct 29, 10:09*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote: If by "text box", you mean a Text Input FormField as used in a document that is Protected for Filling in forms, you would need to unprotect the document to use the EditReplace facility. *You can if necessary then reapply the Protection. To see how to have data entered into such formfields be repeated in other places in a document, take a look at: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Repeating_Data.htm -- Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid, professional basis. "MikeB" wrote in message ... I might have initially done this the wrong way. I needed a lot of little labels or tags. To do this I created a table and put a text box in each wit hthe requisite text. Now I need to change the text and I cannot do a global find/replace on the text in the text boxes. Question 1: Is there a way to change text in all the text boxes using find/replace? Question 2. Is there a way to have a lot of text boxes mirror the text in a "master" text box so that if I type text in one box it will replicate in all the other text boxes? Thanks! Thanks! Will check it out. |
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