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Fields?
Hi,
Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong newsgroup. I need to have a method (Template maybe?) that I can insert fields into. I would email this document to others and ask them to fill in the required fields. I hope they could just create a document from the template and when it opens, it will show gray boxes that allows them to enter the data (name, address, etc). I know I have seen this somewhere before but I can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, Tom |
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What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this
in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Hi, Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong newsgroup. I need to have a method (Template maybe?) that I can insert fields into. I would email this document to others and ask them to fill in the required fields. I hope they could just create a document from the template and when it opens, it will show gray boxes that allows them to enter the data (name, address, etc). I know I have seen this somewhere before but I can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, Tom |
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Charles,
Thanks for the help. This looks like just the ticket .... almost. Although I have not delved too deeply into it yet, it looks like what I need. But, I have gotten stuck almost at the beginning. I downloaded a zipfile with the sample form from http://www.mousetrax.com/pub/FormsFive.zip and I have some problem with it. I can enter data (first name, last name, etc) in the fields but when I click on the Update New command button, it just focuses on it and shows me the eight black squares that allows me to resize the button. In other words, it looks like it is in the Edit/Design mode and I am not able to get it to function (write my data to the Access table) correctly. While it is open in Word, I have checked and the document is Protected. Again, any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Hi, Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong newsgroup. I need to have a method (Template maybe?) that I can insert fields into. I would email this document to others and ask them to fill in the required fields. I hope they could just create a document from the template and when it opens, it will show gray boxes that allows them to enter the data (name, address, etc). I know I have seen this somewhere before but I can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, Tom |
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Unless you need to, you shouldn't be messing about with Design Mode or the
Controls Toolbox! Stick to the forms toolbar unless it won't do what you need. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Charles, Thanks for the help. This looks like just the ticket .... almost. Although I have not delved too deeply into it yet, it looks like what I need. But, I have gotten stuck almost at the beginning. I downloaded a zipfile with the sample form from http://www.mousetrax.com/pub/FormsFive.zip and I have some problem with it. I can enter data (first name, last name, etc) in the fields but when I click on the Update New command button, it just focuses on it and shows me the eight black squares that allows me to resize the button. In other words, it looks like it is in the Edit/Design mode and I am not able to get it to function (write my data to the Access table) correctly. While it is open in Word, I have checked and the document is Protected. Again, any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Hi, Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong newsgroup. I need to have a method (Template maybe?) that I can insert fields into. I would email this document to others and ask them to fill in the required fields. I hope they could just create a document from the template and when it opens, it will show gray boxes that allows them to enter the data (name, address, etc). I know I have seen this somewhere before but I can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, Tom |
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Charles,
I don't even know how to "mess about" with Design Mode or Controls Toolbox! g It looks like I am in it but I don't know how since all I did was open the Word document. I just downloaded that sample from Dian Chapman and unzipped it into the specified directory. It included a Word document and also a small Access database including one table to store the data entered into the form. All the things I described were there when I opened the Word Document. I was able to enter data into the fields, but then when I click on the "Update New" command button, instead of writing the data to the database, it just focused on the button with the resizing buttons showing. Unfortunately, I've been messing with it all day, I'm running out of time, and I'm still stuck. Thanks for any help you can offer, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Unless you need to, you shouldn't be messing about with Design Mode or the Controls Toolbox! Stick to the forms toolbar unless it won't do what you need. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Charles, Thanks for the help. This looks like just the ticket .... almost. Although I have not delved too deeply into it yet, it looks like what I need. But, I have gotten stuck almost at the beginning. I downloaded a zipfile with the sample form from http://www.mousetrax.com/pub/FormsFive.zip and I have some problem with it. I can enter data (first name, last name, etc) in the fields but when I click on the Update New command button, it just focuses on it and shows me the eight black squares that allows me to resize the button. In other words, it looks like it is in the Edit/Design mode and I am not able to get it to function (write my data to the Access table) correctly. While it is open in Word, I have checked and the document is Protected. Again, any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Hi, Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong newsgroup. I need to have a method (Template maybe?) that I can insert fields into. I would email this document to others and ask them to fill in the required fields. I hope they could just create a document from the template and when it opens, it will show gray boxes that allows them to enter the data (name, address, etc). I know I have seen this somewhere before but I can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, Tom |
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Go back to her first two articles. Use the Forms toolbar.
"Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Charles, I don't even know how to "mess about" with Design Mode or Controls Toolbox! g It looks like I am in it but I don't know how since all I did was open the Word document. I just downloaded that sample from Dian Chapman and unzipped it into the specified directory. It included a Word document and also a small Access database including one table to store the data entered into the form. All the things I described were there when I opened the Word Document. I was able to enter data into the fields, but then when I click on the "Update New" command button, instead of writing the data to the database, it just focused on the button with the resizing buttons showing. Unfortunately, I've been messing with it all day, I'm running out of time, and I'm still stuck. Thanks for any help you can offer, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Unless you need to, you shouldn't be messing about with Design Mode or the Controls Toolbox! Stick to the forms toolbar unless it won't do what you need. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Charles, Thanks for the help. This looks like just the ticket .... almost. Although I have not delved too deeply into it yet, it looks like what I need. But, I have gotten stuck almost at the beginning. I downloaded a zipfile with the sample form from http://www.mousetrax.com/pub/FormsFive.zip and I have some problem with it. I can enter data (first name, last name, etc) in the fields but when I click on the Update New command button, it just focuses on it and shows me the eight black squares that allows me to resize the button. In other words, it looks like it is in the Edit/Design mode and I am not able to get it to function (write my data to the Access table) correctly. While it is open in Word, I have checked and the document is Protected. Again, any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Hi, Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong newsgroup. I need to have a method (Template maybe?) that I can insert fields into. I would email this document to others and ask them to fill in the required fields. I hope they could just create a document from the template and when it opens, it will show gray boxes that allows them to enter the data (name, address, etc). I know I have seen this somewhere before but I can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, Tom |
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Have you set the proper ADO references as described in the article?
-- 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. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Charles, I don't even know how to "mess about" with Design Mode or Controls Toolbox! g It looks like I am in it but I don't know how since all I did was open the Word document. I just downloaded that sample from Dian Chapman and unzipped it into the specified directory. It included a Word document and also a small Access database including one table to store the data entered into the form. All the things I described were there when I opened the Word Document. I was able to enter data into the fields, but then when I click on the "Update New" command button, instead of writing the data to the database, it just focused on the button with the resizing buttons showing. Unfortunately, I've been messing with it all day, I'm running out of time, and I'm still stuck. Thanks for any help you can offer, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Unless you need to, you shouldn't be messing about with Design Mode or the Controls Toolbox! Stick to the forms toolbar unless it won't do what you need. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Charles, Thanks for the help. This looks like just the ticket .... almost. Although I have not delved too deeply into it yet, it looks like what I need. But, I have gotten stuck almost at the beginning. I downloaded a zipfile with the sample form from http://www.mousetrax.com/pub/FormsFive.zip and I have some problem with it. I can enter data (first name, last name, etc) in the fields but when I click on the Update New command button, it just focuses on it and shows me the eight black squares that allows me to resize the button. In other words, it looks like it is in the Edit/Design mode and I am not able to get it to function (write my data to the Access table) correctly. While it is open in Word, I have checked and the document is Protected. Again, any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Tom "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Tom Brown" wrote in message ... Hi, Forgive me if I am posting to the wrong newsgroup. I need to have a method (Template maybe?) that I can insert fields into. I would email this document to others and ask them to fill in the required fields. I hope they could just create a document from the template and when it opens, it will show gray boxes that allows them to enter the data (name, address, etc). I know I have seen this somewhere before but I can't seem to get it going. Any suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, Tom |
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