Go back to her first two articles. Use the Forms toolbar.
"Tom Brown" wrote in message
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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
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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.
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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!
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"Tom Brown" wrote in message
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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
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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!
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"Tom Brown" wrote in message
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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