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text boxes: tabbing and tables
I'm trying to create a page with different sections of information that
require the user to enter information. I have each section in a text box, and have formatted the text for each section in a table. I finally figured out how to link the text boxes. Is it possible, once someone enters info in one field, to tab to the next? Even if that field is in a different text box or different table? So far, with just the text boxes linked, tabbing from one to the next doesn't allow you to tab to the field in the table; tabbing just brings you to the beginning of the text box - not into the table at all. |
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What you are describing is a protected form. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. -- 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. "Cynthia" wrote in message ... I'm trying to create a page with different sections of information that require the user to enter information. I have each section in a text box, and have formatted the text for each section in a table. I finally figured out how to link the text boxes. Is it possible, once someone enters info in one field, to tab to the next? Even if that field is in a different text box or different table? So far, with just the text boxes linked, tabbing from one to the next doesn't allow you to tab to the field in the table; tabbing just brings you to the beginning of the text box - not into the table at all. |
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The info from Dian Chapman was helpful. I was able to create a form and code
jumping from one check box to the next. It was a crash couse in VBE for sure. Thakn you for the pointer to Dian's articles and tutorials. However, Dian's tutorials don't include moving from one text form field to another. What I'm creating are forms with different sections next to each other. Each section has it's own type of information. I've learned that you can't use text boxes to position two tables next to each other and still use form fields. So that much I now know. But I still can't create a jump from a text form field. Anyone else have any suggestions? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are describing is a protected form. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. -- 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. "Cynthia" wrote in message ... I'm trying to create a page with different sections of information that require the user to enter information. I have each section in a text box, and have formatted the text for each section in a table. I finally figured out how to link the text boxes. Is it possible, once someone enters info in one field, to tab to the next? Even if that field is in a different text box or different table? So far, with just the text boxes linked, tabbing from one to the next doesn't allow you to tab to the field in the table; tabbing just brings you to the beginning of the text box - not into the table at all. |
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Hi Cynthia,
If you want two sections in tables next to each other, probably the best way is to fake it: Make just one big table with more columns, and turn off the borders of one column of cells so it *appears* to be two tables. Then you can use macro code to control how the tab key moves between form fields of any kind, as described he http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...etTabOrder.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:27:01 -0800, "Cynthia" wrote: The info from Dian Chapman was helpful. I was able to create a form and code jumping from one check box to the next. It was a crash couse in VBE for sure. Thakn you for the pointer to Dian's articles and tutorials. However, Dian's tutorials don't include moving from one text form field to another. What I'm creating are forms with different sections next to each other. Each section has it's own type of information. I've learned that you can't use text boxes to position two tables next to each other and still use form fields. So that much I now know. But I still can't create a jump from a text form field. Anyone else have any suggestions? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are describing is a protected form. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to. -- 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. "Cynthia" wrote in message ... I'm trying to create a page with different sections of information that require the user to enter information. I have each section in a text box, and have formatted the text for each section in a table. I finally figured out how to link the text boxes. Is it possible, once someone enters info in one field, to tab to the next? Even if that field is in a different text box or different table? So far, with just the text boxes linked, tabbing from one to the next doesn't allow you to tab to the field in the table; tabbing just brings you to the beginning of the text box - not into the table at all. |