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Large block of text in a FormField
On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter
long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
It's hardly worth the trouble for a form that will be filled out online, but
you can put your form field in a table cell set for an Exact height and then add drawing lines at the required intervals to match the text that will be inserted. For more specific instructions, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. Note that there is *no* solution other than drawing lines that will really work. Underlines are unsatisfactory, and table borders require multiple cells; as I'm sure you realize, text cannot flow from one cell to the next, so borders won't work. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "John... Visio MVP" wrote in message ... On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
If you need the lines (unnecessary for a form to be filled in on screen)
then there is no simple way to do this. One possibility would be to create a borderless table cell of fixed height and width, large enough to take your comments section. Insert some random text into the cell as a guide then with the zoom setting at a comfortably large size to view the cell, use the line drawing tool to draw a line between the first and second rows of random text. Copy then paste as many times as you have lines then drag the pasted lines between the remaining lines of text. At high magnification it is simple to align them by eye. Select all the lines right click and group them then set behind text. Then delete the random text and put a form field in the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
Thanks Suzanne
I am working just one level about real paper and pencil. They want a template that looks like the real form and then can be printed. There are no plans to actually capture the information (yet). If I can convince them to actually capture the information, I would go for a more structured design with user forms, but for now, they want to emulate the paper version. The main reasoning is that it makes for more readable results if the information is typed rather than attacked by pen/pencil by someone with writing skills envied by the AMA prescription writing standards team. Though the text fields do expand to accomdate more text, the use of a table cell should give the initial sense of a large writing area. The lines are not as necessary as the presence of a space to write in. Many forms just leave a large white space to write in and forego the task of adding lines to the space. John... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... It's hardly worth the trouble for a form that will be filled out online, but you can put your form field in a table cell set for an Exact height and then add drawing lines at the required intervals to match the text that will be inserted. For more specific instructions, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. Note that there is *no* solution other than drawing lines that will really work. Underlines are unsatisfactory, and table borders require multiple cells; as I'm sure you realize, text cannot flow from one cell to the next, so borders won't work. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "John... Visio MVP" wrote in message ... On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
Thanks Graham, as I mentioned to Suzanne, this is an attempt to mimic the
paper version, so the amount of white space is far more import than the appearance of a lined area to "write" on. The lines may work, but a problem will arise when the text exceeds the original number of lines designed for. The text will continue to wrap, but only the first couple of lines will be underlined. Far asier to eliminate the lines and let Word do it's thing. The key thing is to preserve a suitable amount of white space for the initial view of the form. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you need the lines (unnecessary for a form to be filled in on screen) then there is no simple way to do this. One possibility would be to create a borderless table cell of fixed height and width, large enough to take your comments section. Insert some random text into the cell as a guide then with the zoom setting at a comfortably large size to view the cell, use the line drawing tool to draw a line between the first and second rows of random text. Copy then paste as many times as you have lines then drag the pasted lines between the remaining lines of text. At high magnification it is simple to align them by eye. Select all the lines right click and group them then set behind text. Then delete the random text and put a form field in the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
In that case, use a table cell with "At least" height. You'll get the
appearance of a large white space without restricting the ability to expand further. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "John... Visio MVP" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne I am working just one level about real paper and pencil. They want a template that looks like the real form and then can be printed. There are no plans to actually capture the information (yet). If I can convince them to actually capture the information, I would go for a more structured design with user forms, but for now, they want to emulate the paper version. The main reasoning is that it makes for more readable results if the information is typed rather than attacked by pen/pencil by someone with writing skills envied by the AMA prescription writing standards team. Though the text fields do expand to accomdate more text, the use of a table cell should give the initial sense of a large writing area. The lines are not as necessary as the presence of a space to write in. Many forms just leave a large white space to write in and forego the task of adding lines to the space. John... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... It's hardly worth the trouble for a form that will be filled out online, but you can put your form field in a table cell set for an Exact height and then add drawing lines at the required intervals to match the text that will be inserted. For more specific instructions, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. Note that there is *no* solution other than drawing lines that will really work. Underlines are unsatisfactory, and table borders require multiple cells; as I'm sure you realize, text cannot flow from one cell to the next, so borders won't work. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "John... Visio MVP" wrote in message ... On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
In that case the table cell of fixed height and width will ensure that you
only have the requisite amount of space to write in. Any extra and it simply disappears off the bottom of the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Thanks Graham, as I mentioned to Suzanne, this is an attempt to mimic the paper version, so the amount of white space is far more import than the appearance of a lined area to "write" on. The lines may work, but a problem will arise when the text exceeds the original number of lines designed for. The text will continue to wrap, but only the first couple of lines will be underlined. Far asier to eliminate the lines and let Word do it's thing. The key thing is to preserve a suitable amount of white space for the initial view of the form. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you need the lines (unnecessary for a form to be filled in on screen) then there is no simple way to do this. One possibility would be to create a borderless table cell of fixed height and width, large enough to take your comments section. Insert some random text into the cell as a guide then with the zoom setting at a comfortably large size to view the cell, use the line drawing tool to draw a line between the first and second rows of random text. Copy then paste as many times as you have lines then drag the pasted lines between the remaining lines of text. At high magnification it is simple to align them by eye. Select all the lines right click and group them then set behind text. Then delete the random text and put a form field in the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
Actually that is not a problem. if the cell's hieght is set to "at least",
as Suzanne mentioned, then the cell will grow with the amount of text entered. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... In that case the table cell of fixed height and width will ensure that you only have the requisite amount of space to write in. Any extra and it simply disappears off the bottom of the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Thanks Graham, as I mentioned to Suzanne, this is an attempt to mimic the paper version, so the amount of white space is far more import than the appearance of a lined area to "write" on. The lines may work, but a problem will arise when the text exceeds the original number of lines designed for. The text will continue to wrap, but only the first couple of lines will be underlined. Far asier to eliminate the lines and let Word do it's thing. The key thing is to preserve a suitable amount of white space for the initial view of the form. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you need the lines (unnecessary for a form to be filled in on screen) then there is no simple way to do this. One possibility would be to create a borderless table cell of fixed height and width, large enough to take your comments section. Insert some random text into the cell as a guide then with the zoom setting at a comfortably large size to view the cell, use the line drawing tool to draw a line between the first and second rows of random text. Copy then paste as many times as you have lines then drag the pasted lines between the remaining lines of text. At high magnification it is simple to align them by eye. Select all the lines right click and group them then set behind text. Then delete the random text and put a form field in the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
So it will, but I thought you wanted to reserve the space - or am I reading
too much into this? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Actually that is not a problem. if the cell's hieght is set to "at least", as Suzanne mentioned, then the cell will grow with the amount of text entered. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... In that case the table cell of fixed height and width will ensure that you only have the requisite amount of space to write in. Any extra and it simply disappears off the bottom of the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Thanks Graham, as I mentioned to Suzanne, this is an attempt to mimic the paper version, so the amount of white space is far more import than the appearance of a lined area to "write" on. The lines may work, but a problem will arise when the text exceeds the original number of lines designed for. The text will continue to wrap, but only the first couple of lines will be underlined. Far asier to eliminate the lines and let Word do it's thing. The key thing is to preserve a suitable amount of white space for the initial view of the form. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you need the lines (unnecessary for a form to be filled in on screen) then there is no simple way to do this. One possibility would be to create a borderless table cell of fixed height and width, large enough to take your comments section. Insert some random text into the cell as a guide then with the zoom setting at a comfortably large size to view the cell, use the line drawing tool to draw a line between the first and second rows of random text. Copy then paste as many times as you have lines then drag the pasted lines between the remaining lines of text. At high magnification it is simple to align them by eye. Select all the lines right click and group them then set behind text. Then delete the random text and put a form field in the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
He wants to have a large block of space for the printed form but an
expanding freeform space for the online form. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... So it will, but I thought you wanted to reserve the space - or am I reading too much into this? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Actually that is not a problem. if the cell's hieght is set to "at least", as Suzanne mentioned, then the cell will grow with the amount of text entered. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... In that case the table cell of fixed height and width will ensure that you only have the requisite amount of space to write in. Any extra and it simply disappears off the bottom of the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Thanks Graham, as I mentioned to Suzanne, this is an attempt to mimic the paper version, so the amount of white space is far more import than the appearance of a lined area to "write" on. The lines may work, but a problem will arise when the text exceeds the original number of lines designed for. The text will continue to wrap, but only the first couple of lines will be underlined. Far asier to eliminate the lines and let Word do it's thing. The key thing is to preserve a suitable amount of white space for the initial view of the form. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you need the lines (unnecessary for a form to be filled in on screen) then there is no simple way to do this. One possibility would be to create a borderless table cell of fixed height and width, large enough to take your comments section. Insert some random text into the cell as a guide then with the zoom setting at a comfortably large size to view the cell, use the line drawing tool to draw a line between the first and second rows of random text. Copy then paste as many times as you have lines then drag the pasted lines between the remaining lines of text. At high magnification it is simple to align them by eye. Select all the lines right click and group them then set behind text. Then delete the random text and put a form field in the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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Large block of text in a FormField
It was to reserve SOME space. Just enough to give the user the idea that
there is room to enter a chunk of text. If there is only room for a few characters (what you would get with a text form field), then the psychological suggestion is that you should be very terse with your entry. On a printed form, white space is used to indicate that a more verbose entry is expected. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... So it will, but I thought you wanted to reserve the space - or am I reading too much into this? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Actually that is not a problem. if the cell's hieght is set to "at least", as Suzanne mentioned, then the cell will grow with the amount of text entered. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... In that case the table cell of fixed height and width will ensure that you only have the requisite amount of space to write in. Any extra and it simply disappears off the bottom of the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: Thanks Graham, as I mentioned to Suzanne, this is an attempt to mimic the paper version, so the amount of white space is far more import than the appearance of a lined area to "write" on. The lines may work, but a problem will arise when the text exceeds the original number of lines designed for. The text will continue to wrap, but only the first couple of lines will be underlined. Far asier to eliminate the lines and let Word do it's thing. The key thing is to preserve a suitable amount of white space for the initial view of the form. John... Visio MVP "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If you need the lines (unnecessary for a form to be filled in on screen) then there is no simple way to do this. One possibility would be to create a borderless table cell of fixed height and width, large enough to take your comments section. Insert some random text into the cell as a guide then with the zoom setting at a comfortably large size to view the cell, use the line drawing tool to draw a line between the first and second rows of random text. Copy then paste as many times as you have lines then drag the pasted lines between the remaining lines of text. At high magnification it is simple to align them by eye. Select all the lines right click and group them then set behind text. Then delete the random text and put a form field in the cell. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John... Visio MVP wrote: On paper forms there is some times a series of lines for the writer to enter long winded text. For example, an area for comments. Is there any way to do something similar in a Word Form? The normal Form Field for text is just a few characters long. This will expand to allow multiline text, but initially, it is just a few characters long. So rather than Comments:____ How can I get something like Comments:_________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ? John... Visio MVP |
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