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Lost form fields after merge
TextInput type FormFields are lost when doing a Mail Merge, but the
fix that MS has proposed is inadequate for my purposes. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=286841 The Word fill-in forms that I have been given - and cannot substantially alter - have blank Word *form* fields - textInput, checkbox, and combobox form fields. Some of these, I want to merge data into, some of these I don't, but instead want them to be left blank for the user to fill in manually *after the merge*. Although checkboxes and comboboxes remain after the merge, any unfilled textInput boxes are not present in the newly created document. The user cannot then tab between the unfilled Word form fields and fill them in. Microsoft's workaround above is about the same as mine - I put the text "ff" in the original doc, and then use vba to replace that with a form field (from Access): ..Application.Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Do While .Application.Selection.Find.Execute _ (FindText:="ff", Wrap:=wdFindContinue, Forward:=True) = True .ActiveDocument.FormFields.Add _ Range:=.Application.Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldFormTextInput Loop My main problem is that so far, I can only add a field - I cannot then re-create the formatting that the original designers of the Word Document intended (underline, maximum width 2, uppercase, etc). Darryl Kerkeslager Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Knowledge is power. See www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 |
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