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Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME
My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I
can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME
Anyone got an answer to this? I'm thinkin it's a pretty common thing and
dying minds want to know! *smile* --dax -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Dax Arroway" wrote: My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME
How did you apply the underlining? If I insert a FormField and then select
it and then use the Underline button on the Home tab, the formfield is underlined and then when the document is protected, that text that is entered into that FormField is underlined. In what way is the font of the text in FormField different from that in the rest of the paragraph? Have you applied the same font to the FormField? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message news My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME
Thanks for responding. The underlining is applied by Tabbing over. So:
Name, semicolon, space, underline selected, Tab, Tab. Then I insert a text field between the two tabs and lock the form. When I type into the box the underline goes away. That's what happened when I opened a blank doc and just typed that part. The issue of the font changes happen when I'm changing a pre-done form, which someone created to be printed and filled out, and I'm inserting form fields throughout it so people can fill them out on the computer instead. In these cases, the form's font is Arial but the form fields are Times New Roman & the underlines go away. Do I have to set and apply a style to the fields? Or is there a better practice to doing this? -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: How did you apply the underlining? If I insert a FormField and then select it and then use the Underline button on the Home tab, the formfield is underlined and then when the document is protected, that text that is entered into that FormField is underlined. In what way is the font of the text in FormField different from that in the rest of the paragraph? Have you applied the same font to the FormField? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message news My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME
Do this:
Name, semi-colon, space, insert FormField, then select the FormField and apply the underlining to it. Then protect your document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. The underlining is applied by Tabbing over. So: Name, semicolon, space, underline selected, Tab, Tab. Then I insert a text field between the two tabs and lock the form. When I type into the box the underline goes away. That's what happened when I opened a blank doc and just typed that part. The issue of the font changes happen when I'm changing a pre-done form, which someone created to be printed and filled out, and I'm inserting form fields throughout it so people can fill them out on the computer instead. In these cases, the form's font is Arial but the form fields are Times New Roman & the underlines go away. Do I have to set and apply a style to the fields? Or is there a better practice to doing this? -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: How did you apply the underlining? If I insert a FormField and then select it and then use the Underline button on the Home tab, the formfield is underlined and then when the document is protected, that text that is entered into that FormField is underlined. In what way is the font of the text in FormField different from that in the rest of the paragraph? Have you applied the same font to the FormField? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message news My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME
Yep, tried that. Simple. Opened new doc, typed: Name, semicolon, a few
spaces. Went to Developer\Controls\Legacy Tools\insert text box. Inserted the text box. Made sure the box was selected and then underlined it (ctrl+U). Protected the doc by checking the "Limit formatting to a selection of styles" check box under 1. Formatting restrictions and the "Allow only this type of editing in the document: Filling in Forms" under 2. Editing restrictions, and lastly: Yes, Start Enforcing Protection. Underline is there. Start typing in the box, underline goes away. Ahhhh! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Do this: Name, semi-colon, space, insert FormField, then select the FormField and apply the underlining to it. Then protect your document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. The underlining is applied by Tabbing over. So: Name, semicolon, space, underline selected, Tab, Tab. Then I insert a text field between the two tabs and lock the form. When I type into the box the underline goes away. That's what happened when I opened a blank doc and just typed that part. The issue of the font changes happen when I'm changing a pre-done form, which someone created to be printed and filled out, and I'm inserting form fields throughout it so people can fill them out on the computer instead. In these cases, the form's font is Arial but the form fields are Times New Roman & the underlines go away. Do I have to set and apply a style to the fields? Or is there a better practice to doing this? -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: How did you apply the underlining? If I insert a FormField and then select it and then use the Underline button on the Home tab, the formfield is underlined and then when the document is protected, that text that is entered into that FormField is underlined. In what way is the font of the text in FormField different from that in the rest of the paragraph? Have you applied the same font to the FormField? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message news My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME
Omit the Lmit formatting to a selection of styles step and it will work.
Protecting the document for Filling in Forms by itself will prevent you from changing styles in the document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message ... Yep, tried that. Simple. Opened new doc, typed: Name, semicolon, a few spaces. Went to Developer\Controls\Legacy Tools\insert text box. Inserted the text box. Made sure the box was selected and then underlined it (ctrl+U). Protected the doc by checking the "Limit formatting to a selection of styles" check box under 1. Formatting restrictions and the "Allow only this type of editing in the document: Filling in Forms" under 2. Editing restrictions, and lastly: Yes, Start Enforcing Protection. Underline is there. Start typing in the box, underline goes away. Ahhhh! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Do this: Name, semi-colon, space, insert FormField, then select the FormField and apply the underlining to it. Then protect your document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. The underlining is applied by Tabbing over. So: Name, semicolon, space, underline selected, Tab, Tab. Then I insert a text field between the two tabs and lock the form. When I type into the box the underline goes away. That's what happened when I opened a blank doc and just typed that part. The issue of the font changes happen when I'm changing a pre-done form, which someone created to be printed and filled out, and I'm inserting form fields throughout it so people can fill them out on the computer instead. In these cases, the form's font is Arial but the form fields are Times New Roman & the underlines go away. Do I have to set and apply a style to the fields? Or is there a better practice to doing this? -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: How did you apply the underlining? If I insert a FormField and then select it and then use the Underline button on the Home tab, the formfield is underlined and then when the document is protected, that text that is entered into that FormField is underlined. In what way is the font of the text in FormField different from that in the rest of the paragraph? Have you applied the same font to the FormField? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message news My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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HALLELEUYHA!!! THANK YOU. It's always the simple things, isn't it!
-- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Omit the Lmit formatting to a selection of styles step and it will work. Protecting the document for Filling in Forms by itself will prevent you from changing styles in the document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message ... Yep, tried that. Simple. Opened new doc, typed: Name, semicolon, a few spaces. Went to Developer\Controls\Legacy Tools\insert text box. Inserted the text box. Made sure the box was selected and then underlined it (ctrl+U). Protected the doc by checking the "Limit formatting to a selection of styles" check box under 1. Formatting restrictions and the "Allow only this type of editing in the document: Filling in Forms" under 2. Editing restrictions, and lastly: Yes, Start Enforcing Protection. Underline is there. Start typing in the box, underline goes away. Ahhhh! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Do this: Name, semi-colon, space, insert FormField, then select the FormField and apply the underlining to it. Then protect your document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. The underlining is applied by Tabbing over. So: Name, semicolon, space, underline selected, Tab, Tab. Then I insert a text field between the two tabs and lock the form. When I type into the box the underline goes away. That's what happened when I opened a blank doc and just typed that part. The issue of the font changes happen when I'm changing a pre-done form, which someone created to be printed and filled out, and I'm inserting form fields throughout it so people can fill them out on the computer instead. In these cases, the form's font is Arial but the form fields are Times New Roman & the underlines go away. Do I have to set and apply a style to the fields? Or is there a better practice to doing this? -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: How did you apply the underlining? If I insert a FormField and then select it and then use the Underline button on the Home tab, the formfield is underlined and then when the document is protected, that text that is entered into that FormField is underlined. In what way is the font of the text in FormField different from that in the rest of the paragraph? Have you applied the same font to the FormField? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Dax Arroway" wrote in message news My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No HelpAbout anymore so I can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a Windows based PC. Anyway, I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal' tools when the form is in 'compability mode'). I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes. Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!) Thanks for your help in advance! -- I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous! |
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