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Having problems with my form
I created a form using word 2007 and when I create a text box that is
a few lines long and type across the page my text goes in to "infinity" off the page but it wont use the other lines in my text box. When I right click in the text box and go to format object the "text box" tab is not active. Am I missing something, or is it more complicated? Your help would be greatly appreciated. |
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Having problems with my form
I created a form using word 2007 and when I create a text box that is
a few lines long and type across the page my text goes in to "infinity" off the page but it wont use the other lines in my text box. When I right click in the text box and go to format object the "text box" tab is not active. Am I missing something, or is it more complicated? Which command did you use to create this "text box". (There are at least three different kinds of "text box" in Word...) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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On Jun 13, 10:19 am, Cindy M. wrote:
I created a form using word 2007 and when I create a text box that is a few lines long and type across the page my text goes in to "infinity" off the page but it wont use the other lines in my text box. When I right click in the text box and go to format object the "text box" tab is not active. Am I missing something, or is it more complicated? Which command did you use to create this "text box". (There are at least three different kinds of "text box" in Word...) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerlandhttp://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister(last update Jun 17 2005)http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) I used the developer ribbon, the controls tab, legacy tools, and the text box under active x controls |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:34:05 -0700 (PDT), troutkila wrote:
On Jun 13, 10:19 am, Cindy M. wrote: I created a form using word 2007 and when I create a text box that is a few lines long and type across the page my text goes in to "infinity" off the page but it wont use the other lines in my text box. When I right click in the text box and go to format object the "text box" tab is not active. Am I missing something, or is it more complicated? Which command did you use to create this "text box". (There are at least three different kinds of "text box" in Word...) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerlandhttp://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister(last update Jun 17 2005)http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) I used the developer ribbon, the controls tab, legacy tools, and the text box under active x controls If you insist on using the ActiveX text box control (which is what you have now), select the box and click first the Design Mode button and then the Properties button on the Developer ribbon. In the Properties dialog, change the MultiLine property from False to True. Close the Properties dialog and click Design Mode again to turn it off. That will allow the text box to wrap text to the remaining lines. If the form will be used only in Word 2007, you should probably build your form with Rich Text content controls instead of legacy controls. That's the top left button in the Controls group. -- 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. |
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Having problems with my form
Thank you for helping me with this. I just have one more question.
Now that my form is all put together when I fill it out is there any way to be able to do a search based on certain search criteria to find likenesses in word or do I need to use a program like InfoPath? Troutkila |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:46:22 -0700 (PDT), troutkila wrote:
Thank you for helping me with this. I just have one more question. Now that my form is all put together when I fill it out is there any way to be able to do a search based on certain search criteria to find likenesses in word or do I need to use a program like InfoPath? Troutkila Do you mean a search within a document using Word's Find function, or a search through Windows Explorer's Search function to find documents containing a word or phrase? If you use content controls, both of those searches work. If you use text form fields, the Windows Explorer search will find the file, but Word's Find function will be disabled unless you unprotect the document (but then it will find the search term if it occurs inside a form field). -- 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. |
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