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text form field in document (based on template)
Scenerio: I have a template which contains a few text form fields. I
have placed this template on the network to be used as a workgroup template. All is well with creating new documents based on the template. However, it has been brought to my attention that the properties of a text form field need to be changed. I have since fixed it on the template, but I cannot get the changes to apply to existing documents which were already created from the template. It doesn't seem reasonable to me that I should have to tell people they need to create a new doc and copy/paste their data into it. I've tried using Tools Templates and add-ins, and checking the box for automatically updating the document's styles...but this does not seem to affect text form fields. Any tips on this? Thanks in advance for looking! |
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text form field in document (based on template)
On 18 Oct 2005 16:53:44 -0700, "Dan" wrote:
Scenerio: I have a template which contains a few text form fields. I have placed this template on the network to be used as a workgroup template. All is well with creating new documents based on the template. However, it has been brought to my attention that the properties of a text form field need to be changed. I have since fixed it on the template, but I cannot get the changes to apply to existing documents which were already created from the template. It doesn't seem reasonable to me that I should have to tell people they need to create a new doc and copy/paste their data into it. I've tried using Tools Templates and add-ins, and checking the box for automatically updating the document's styles...but this does not seem to affect text form fields. Any tips on this? Thanks in advance for looking! Form field properties have no relation to styles. That's why trying to use the "Automatically update document styles" option has no effect. Once you create a document from the template, there's no way to make changes in the template and transfer them to the document. You'll need to make the changes in the fields in each existing document. I hope you caught the problem before there are huge numbers of documents. To make the change, you'll have to unprotect the document first and reprotect it again afterward. In order to reprotect without losing the data, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...lfResetOff.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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text form field in document (based on template)
darn, was hoping that wasn't the case but not a huge deal...I did
manage to catch this before it was widespread (it's being tested by a select few before company wide rollout). I tried the code from the link you suggested and it works great...we'll just use that on the few docs that were already created. Thanks again! |
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