[Gilles Desjardins]

Word 2003 I am making a form to fill in. One field is number with fill-in
active and calculate on exit active.
When I lock the form to test it,everything else works and so does the field
in question EXCEPT that as I tab to leave the field to move to the next
field a dialogue box opens and waits for me to type text in it. So, I press
escape, the box goes away and I carry on with the rest of the form.
How do I stop this box from appearing, I don't know how it became active?

Thank in advanced

Gilles

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Tell us more about the dialog that appears. What is its title? Do you have
a macro running on exit from the formfield?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Word 2003 I am making a form to fill in. One field is number with fill-in
active and calculate on exit active.
When I lock the form to test it,everything else works and so does the
field in question EXCEPT that as I tab to leave the field to move to the
next field a dialogue box opens and waits for me to type text in it. So, I
press escape, the box goes away and I carry on with the rest of the form.
How do I stop this box from appearing, I don't know how it became active?

Thank in advanced

Gilles

[Gilles Desjardins]

Hello Doug,

The dialog box has an ok and a cancel button and in the title bar it is
written: Microsoft Office Word. Nothing else.
Run a macro on entry and run a macro on exit are both blank. On previous
occasions of troubleshooting I had selected the word "none" in those boxes.
The box is 3 3/4" wide and 1 3/4" high and there is a cursor flashing,
waiting for keyboard entry.
Alt+F11 (VBA editor) does not show any programming modules.

Hope this helps clarify.

Thanks for your help

Gilles

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Tell us more about the dialog that appears. What is its title? Do you
have a macro running on exit from the formfield?

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Word 2003 I am making a form to fill in. One field is number with fill-in
active and calculate on exit active.
When I lock the form to test it,everything else works and so does the
field in question EXCEPT that as I tab to leave the field to move to the
next field a dialogue box opens and waits for me to type text in it. So,
I press escape, the box goes away and I carry on with the rest of the
form.
How do I stop this box from appearing, I don't know how it became active?

Thank in advanced

Gilles

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you want to send me a copy of the document, I will take a look to see
what is causing it. Send to

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Hello Doug,

The dialog box has an ok and a cancel button and in the title bar it is
written: Microsoft Office Word. Nothing else.
Run a macro on entry and run a macro on exit are both blank. On previous
occasions of troubleshooting I had selected the word "none" in those
boxes.
The box is 3 3/4" wide and 1 3/4" high and there is a cursor flashing,
waiting for keyboard entry.
Alt+F11 (VBA editor) does not show any programming modules.

Hope this helps clarify.

Thanks for your help

Gilles

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Tell us more about the dialog that appears. What is its title? Do you
have a macro running on exit from the formfield?

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Word 2003 I am making a form to fill in. One field is number with
fill-in active and calculate on exit active.
When I lock the form to test it,everything else works and so does the
field in question EXCEPT that as I tab to leave the field to move to the
next field a dialogue box opens and waits for me to type text in it. So,
I press escape, the box goes away and I carry on with the rest of the
form.
How do I stop this box from appearing, I don't know how it became
active?

Thank in advanced

Gilles

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

The dialog box appeared because there was a Fillin field in the document and
the Calculate On Exit causes the fields in the document to be updated which
causes the Fillin (which did not have any prompt) to be activated.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Hello Doug,

The dialog box has an ok and a cancel button and in the title bar it is
written: Microsoft Office Word. Nothing else.
Run a macro on entry and run a macro on exit are both blank. On previous
occasions of troubleshooting I had selected the word "none" in those
boxes.
The box is 3 3/4" wide and 1 3/4" high and there is a cursor flashing,
waiting for keyboard entry.
Alt+F11 (VBA editor) does not show any programming modules.

Hope this helps clarify.

Thanks for your help

Gilles

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Tell us more about the dialog that appears. What is its title? Do you
have a macro running on exit from the formfield?

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Word 2003 I am making a form to fill in. One field is number with
fill-in active and calculate on exit active.
When I lock the form to test it,everything else works and so does the
field in question EXCEPT that as I tab to leave the field to move to the
next field a dialogue box opens and waits for me to type text in it. So,
I press escape, the box goes away and I carry on with the rest of the
form.
How do I stop this box from appearing, I don't know how it became
active?

Thank in advanced

Gilles

[Gilles Desjardins]

Thank you Doug, had not thought of looking further up the form. You fixed my
problem.

Gilles
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
The dialog box appeared because there was a Fillin field in the document
and the Calculate On Exit causes the fields in the document to be updated
which causes the Fillin (which did not have any prompt) to be activated.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Hello Doug,

The dialog box has an ok and a cancel button and in the title bar it is
written: Microsoft Office Word. Nothing else.
Run a macro on entry and run a macro on exit are both blank. On previous
occasions of troubleshooting I had selected the word "none" in those
boxes.
The box is 3 3/4" wide and 1 3/4" high and there is a cursor flashing,
waiting for keyboard entry.
Alt+F11 (VBA editor) does not show any programming modules.

Hope this helps clarify.

Thanks for your help

Gilles

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Tell us more about the dialog that appears. What is its title? Do you
have a macro running on exit from the formfield?

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Gilles Desjardins" wrote in message
...
Word 2003 I am making a form to fill in. One field is number with
fill-in active and calculate on exit active.
When I lock the form to test it,everything else works and so does the
field in question EXCEPT that as I tab to leave the field to move to
the next field a dialogue box opens and waits for me to type text in
it. So, I press escape, the box goes away and I carry on with the rest
of the form.
How do I stop this box from appearing, I don't know how it became
active?

Thank in advanced

Gilles