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Handling the ENTER Key in Word 2003 Forms
I have created several Word 2003 Forms for the first time. I have
noticed that when setting a limit on the number of characters that are allowed in a text field that Word ignores the ENTER key. What I want to accomplish is as follows: 1. Limit the size of the text field (including the ENTER key). 2. Prevent the form from being expanded into another page. 3. Prevent the form's general appearance from being corrupted. 4. Maybe counting the number of times the ENTER key was hit (?). Is any of the above possible in Word 2003's standard treatment of Text fields in Forms? I don't know how to write Macros or Code so that would not be good for me unless there was something already written to handle the ENTER key. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT |
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Handling the ENTER Key in Word 2003 Forms
Generally speaking, form creators limit the amount of space for form field
entries by putting them in table cells with fixed row height. -- 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. "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have created several Word 2003 Forms for the first time. I have noticed that when setting a limit on the number of characters that are allowed in a text field that Word ignores the ENTER key. What I want to accomplish is as follows: 1. Limit the size of the text field (including the ENTER key). 2. Prevent the form from being expanded into another page. 3. Prevent the form's general appearance from being corrupted. 4. Maybe counting the number of times the ENTER key was hit (?). Is any of the above possible in Word 2003's standard treatment of Text fields in Forms? I don't know how to write Macros or Code so that would not be good for me unless there was something already written to handle the ENTER key. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT |
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Handling the ENTER Key in Word 2003 Forms
Microsoft offers some macros to make the Enter key behave as the Tab
key; see http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;211219 -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have created several Word 2003 Forms for the first time. I have noticed that when setting a limit on the number of characters that are allowed in a text field that Word ignores the ENTER key. What I want to accomplish is as follows: 1. Limit the size of the text field (including the ENTER key). 2. Prevent the form from being expanded into another page. 3. Prevent the form's general appearance from being corrupted. 4. Maybe counting the number of times the ENTER key was hit (?). Is any of the above possible in Word 2003's standard treatment of Text fields in Forms? I don't know how to write Macros or Code so that would not be good for me unless there was something already written to handle the ENTER key. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT |
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Handling the ENTER Key in Word 2003 Forms
Suzanne,
Thank you for your response. This sounds viable but I do have one additional question for you (if you have time). Let's say that I want to permit six lines of text in total. Does this mean that I need to calculate the total row heigth that six lines would take up and set that as the row height limit? Thank you for your time. Lenny -- Lenny XT "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Generally speaking, form creators limit the amount of space for form field entries by putting them in table cells with fixed row height. -- 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. "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have created several Word 2003 Forms for the first time. I have noticed that when setting a limit on the number of characters that are allowed in a text field that Word ignores the ENTER key. What I want to accomplish is as follows: 1. Limit the size of the text field (including the ENTER key). 2. Prevent the form from being expanded into another page. 3. Prevent the form's general appearance from being corrupted. 4. Maybe counting the number of times the ENTER key was hit (?). Is any of the above possible in Word 2003's standard treatment of Text fields in Forms? I don't know how to write Macros or Code so that would not be good for me unless there was something already written to handle the ENTER key. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT |
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Handling the ENTER Key in Word 2003 Forms
Stefan,
Thanks for the reply. I did look up the macros by following the link you provided. Although it stated that it was only for Word Versions 6.0, 2000, and 2002, It probably would work for Word 2003 (my version). My main concern is that the Form document cannot be Protected for the macros to work (without an error). In my case it is essential that the Forms be Protected. If you have any thoughts on this then please reply. I will investigate this some more. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT "Stefan Blom" wrote: Microsoft offers some macros to make the Enter key behave as the Tab key; see http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;211219 -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have created several Word 2003 Forms for the first time. I have noticed that when setting a limit on the number of characters that are allowed in a text field that Word ignores the ENTER key. What I want to accomplish is as follows: 1. Limit the size of the text field (including the ENTER key). 2. Prevent the form from being expanded into another page. 3. Prevent the form's general appearance from being corrupted. 4. Maybe counting the number of times the ENTER key was hit (?). Is any of the above possible in Word 2003's standard treatment of Text fields in Forms? I don't know how to write Macros or Code so that would not be good for me unless there was something already written to handle the ENTER key. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT |
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Handling the ENTER Key in Word 2003 Forms
Basically, yes, Lenny.
************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Lenny" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thank you for your response. This sounds viable but I do have one additional question for you (if you have time). Let's say that I want to permit six lines of text in total. Does this mean that I need to calculate the total row heigth that six lines would take up and set that as the row height limit? Thank you for your time. Lenny -- Lenny XT "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Generally speaking, form creators limit the amount of space for form field entries by putting them in table cells with fixed row height. -- 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. "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have created several Word 2003 Forms for the first time. I have noticed that when setting a limit on the number of characters that are allowed in a text field that Word ignores the ENTER key. What I want to accomplish is as follows: 1. Limit the size of the text field (including the ENTER key). 2. Prevent the form from being expanded into another page. 3. Prevent the form's general appearance from being corrupted. 4. Maybe counting the number of times the ENTER key was hit (?). Is any of the above possible in Word 2003's standard treatment of Text fields in Forms? I don't know how to write Macros or Code so that would not be good for me unless there was something already written to handle the ENTER key. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT |
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Handling the ENTER Key in Word 2003 Forms
That kind of macro doesn't require that the forms not be protected. They run
on the event of hitting the Enter key. You'll notice it says IF THIS PART of the form is NOT protected, it just provides regular enter key behavior. So if your form is all protected, it'll work. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Lenny" wrote in message news Stefan, Thanks for the reply. I did look up the macros by following the link you provided. Although it stated that it was only for Word Versions 6.0, 2000, and 2002, It probably would work for Word 2003 (my version). My main concern is that the Form document cannot be Protected for the macros to work (without an error). In my case it is essential that the Forms be Protected. If you have any thoughts on this then please reply. I will investigate this some more. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT "Stefan Blom" wrote: Microsoft offers some macros to make the Enter key behave as the Tab key; see http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;211219 -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have created several Word 2003 Forms for the first time. I have noticed that when setting a limit on the number of characters that are allowed in a text field that Word ignores the ENTER key. What I want to accomplish is as follows: 1. Limit the size of the text field (including the ENTER key). 2. Prevent the form from being expanded into another page. 3. Prevent the form's general appearance from being corrupted. 4. Maybe counting the number of times the ENTER key was hit (?). Is any of the above possible in Word 2003's standard treatment of Text fields in Forms? I don't know how to write Macros or Code so that would not be good for me unless there was something already written to handle the ENTER key. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lenny -- Lenny XT |
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