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Peculiar behaviour of form
I have a new client who sends me instructions on a predesigned form in
Word. I have to reply by clicking on checkboxes (which produces an X) and adding comments in allocated places, then sending back the form. I found that random boxes were apparently becoming checked when I didn't want them to be. I have eventually traced this to the operation of the keyboard down-arrow key. If it is used random boxes become checked but if the mousewheel is used for navigation all is OK. Can anybody throw light on this bizarre behaviour? |
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Peculiar behaviour of form
Hi Aalaan,
Does that form have any macros that could be misbehaving? Possibly one that's assigned to the down-arrow? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:47:26 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: I have a new client who sends me instructions on a predesigned form in Word. I have to reply by clicking on checkboxes (which produces an X) and adding comments in allocated places, then sending back the form. I found that random boxes were apparently becoming checked when I didn't want them to be. I have eventually traced this to the operation of the keyboard down-arrow key. If it is used random boxes become checked but if the mousewheel is used for navigation all is OK. Can anybody throw light on this bizarre behaviour? |
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How do I check? (Word 2000)
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Aalaan, Does that form have any macros that could be misbehaving? Possibly one that's assigned to the down-arrow? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:47:26 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: I have a new client who sends me instructions on a predesigned form in Word. I have to reply by clicking on checkboxes (which produces an X) and adding comments in allocated places, then sending back the form. I found that random boxes were apparently becoming checked when I didn't want them to be. I have eventually traced this to the operation of the keyboard down-arrow key. If it is used random boxes become checked but if the mousewheel is used for navigation all is OK. Can anybody throw light on this bizarre behaviour? |
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The easiest way to find out what's assigned to a shortcut key is to
press Ctrl+Alt and the + sign on the number pad, then press the shortcut in question. The Customize dialog will pop up and display the assignment, if any. See item 9 in the first group at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...efFilename.htm. To find macros, open the Tools Macro Macros dialog and see what's in the list. If a macro is in Normal.dot or the base template for the document, you'll be able to select the macro and click the Edit button to see the code. If the macro is in an add-in, you can select the macro but the Edit button will be disabled -- you would have to open the add-in (using the File Open dialog) first to enable it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:58:48 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: How do I check? (Word 2000) "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . Hi Aalaan, Does that form have any macros that could be misbehaving? Possibly one that's assigned to the down-arrow? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:47:26 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: I have a new client who sends me instructions on a predesigned form in Word. I have to reply by clicking on checkboxes (which produces an X) and adding comments in allocated places, then sending back the form. I found that random boxes were apparently becoming checked when I didn't want them to be. I have eventually traced this to the operation of the keyboard down-arrow key. If it is used random boxes become checked but if the mousewheel is used for navigation all is OK. Can anybody throw light on this bizarre behaviour? |
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Thanks Jay.
So I loaded in the form and went Tools | Macro | (then Macros was greyed out) Tried CTRL-ALT + then downarrow. Nothing shown. The mystery continues. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... The easiest way to find out what's assigned to a shortcut key is to press Ctrl+Alt and the + sign on the number pad, then press the shortcut in question. The Customize dialog will pop up and display the assignment, if any. See item 9 in the first group at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...efFilename.htm. To find macros, open the Tools Macro Macros dialog and see what's in the list. If a macro is in Normal.dot or the base template for the document, you'll be able to select the macro and click the Edit button to see the code. If the macro is in an add-in, you can select the macro but the Edit button will be disabled -- you would have to open the add-in (using the File Open dialog) first to enable it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:58:48 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: How do I check? (Word 2000) "Jay Freedman" wrote in message . .. Hi Aalaan, Does that form have any macros that could be misbehaving? Possibly one that's assigned to the down-arrow? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:47:26 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: I have a new client who sends me instructions on a predesigned form in Word. I have to reply by clicking on checkboxes (which produces an X) and adding comments in allocated places, then sending back the form. I found that random boxes were apparently becoming checked when I didn't want them to be. I have eventually traced this to the operation of the keyboard down-arrow key. If it is used random boxes become checked but if the mousewheel is used for navigation all is OK. Can anybody throw light on this bizarre behaviour? |
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To enable either of these methods, you'll have to unprotect the form
first. But there's probably nothing there anyway. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:38:43 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: Thanks Jay. So I loaded in the form and went Tools | Macro | (then Macros was greyed out) Tried CTRL-ALT + then downarrow. Nothing shown. The mystery continues. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . The easiest way to find out what's assigned to a shortcut key is to press Ctrl+Alt and the + sign on the number pad, then press the shortcut in question. The Customize dialog will pop up and display the assignment, if any. See item 9 in the first group at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...efFilename.htm. To find macros, open the Tools Macro Macros dialog and see what's in the list. If a macro is in Normal.dot or the base template for the document, you'll be able to select the macro and click the Edit button to see the code. If the macro is in an add-in, you can select the macro but the Edit button will be disabled -- you would have to open the add-in (using the File Open dialog) first to enable it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:58:48 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: How do I check? (Word 2000) "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Aalaan, Does that form have any macros that could be misbehaving? Possibly one that's assigned to the down-arrow? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:47:26 +1100, "Aalaan" wrote: I have a new client who sends me instructions on a predesigned form in Word. I have to reply by clicking on checkboxes (which produces an X) and adding comments in allocated places, then sending back the form. I found that random boxes were apparently becoming checked when I didn't want them to be. I have eventually traced this to the operation of the keyboard down-arrow key. If it is used random boxes become checked but if the mousewheel is used for navigation all is OK. Can anybody throw light on this bizarre behaviour? |
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