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Change Form Field Font
MS Word 2003.
I have quite a few Form Fields on my document. I would like to change the font on ALL of them. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks... |
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Change Form Field Font
1. Unprotect the form.
2. Display field codes (Al+F9). 3. In the Replace dialog, in the "Find what" box, type ^19 FORM 4. Click More to expand the dialog. 5. With the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, click Format | Font and select the desired font. 7. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... MS Word 2003. I have quite a few Form Fields on my document. I would like to change the font on ALL of them. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks... |
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On Jan 1, 9:06*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
1. Unprotect the form. 2. Display field codes (Al+F9). 3. In the Replace dialog, in the "Find what" box, type * * ^19 FORM 4. Click More to expand the dialog. 5. With the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, click Format | Font and select the desired font. 7. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... MS Word 2003. I have quite a few Form Fields on my document. *I would like to change the font on ALL of them. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks... Oh, how great! I copied your code to place in the "Find what" box, but it did not work. I then typed your values in the box, and it worked!. Thanks much for your help. |
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This assumes, of course, that you want ALL your form fields in the same
font; otherwise, you'd have to Find Next and Replace selectively. And I neglected to mention that after running the replace, you have to Alt+F9 to toggle the form fields back, then reprotect the form, but I guess you figured that out! The only part of the operation that is tricky (and which always catches me) is that if you place the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, then click More, then start selecting formatting, you end up having to do it over because, when you click More, the insertion point jumps back to the "Find what" box. And of course when you're replacing with just formatting, you need to make sure that the "Replace with" box is empty. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... On Jan 1, 9:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: 1. Unprotect the form. 2. Display field codes (Al+F9). 3. In the Replace dialog, in the "Find what" box, type ^19 FORM 4. Click More to expand the dialog. 5. With the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, click Format | Font and select the desired font. 7. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... MS Word 2003. I have quite a few Form Fields on my document. I would like to change the font on ALL of them. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks... Oh, how great! I copied your code to place in the "Find what" box, but it did not work. I then typed your values in the box, and it worked!. Thanks much for your help. |
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On Jan 1, 10:26*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
This assumes, of course, that you want ALL your form fields in the same font; otherwise, you'd have to Find Next and Replace selectively. And I neglected to mention that after running the replace, you have to Alt+F9 to toggle the form fields back, then reprotect the form, but I guess you figured that out! The only part of the operation that is tricky (and which always catches me) is that if you place the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, then click More, then start selecting formatting, you end up having to do it over because, when you click More, the insertion point jumps back to the "Find what" box. And of course when you're replacing with just formatting, you need to make sure that the "Replace with" box is empty. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... On Jan 1, 9:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: 1. Unprotect the form. 2. Display field codes (Al+F9). 3. In the Replace dialog, in the "Find what" box, type ^19 FORM 4. Click More to expand the dialog. 5. With the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, click Format | Font and select the desired font. 7. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message .... MS Word 2003. I have quite a few Form Fields on my document. I would like to change the font on ALL of them. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks... Oh, how great! I copied your code to place in the "Find what" box, but it did not work. *I then typed your values in the box, and it worked!. Thanks much for your help. Suzanne, you did so well with my first question, I'd like to pose another. If you copy a Forms Field to another location, it contains a blank Bookmark. So, is there way to automatically assign Bookmarks to Form Fields that are blank (empty)? Bernie |
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There may be, but it would probably require VBA (a macro), which is beyond
my capability, but others here may be able to help. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... On Jan 1, 10:26 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: This assumes, of course, that you want ALL your form fields in the same font; otherwise, you'd have to Find Next and Replace selectively. And I neglected to mention that after running the replace, you have to Alt+F9 to toggle the form fields back, then reprotect the form, but I guess you figured that out! The only part of the operation that is tricky (and which always catches me) is that if you place the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, then click More, then start selecting formatting, you end up having to do it over because, when you click More, the insertion point jumps back to the "Find what" box. And of course when you're replacing with just formatting, you need to make sure that the "Replace with" box is empty. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... On Jan 1, 9:06 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: 1. Unprotect the form. 2. Display field codes (Al+F9). 3. In the Replace dialog, in the "Find what" box, type ^19 FORM 4. Click More to expand the dialog. 5. With the insertion point in the "Replace with" box, click Format | Font and select the desired font. 7. Replace All. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "iamnu" wrote in message ... MS Word 2003. I have quite a few Form Fields on my document. I would like to change the font on ALL of them. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Thanks... Oh, how great! I copied your code to place in the "Find what" box, but it did not work. I then typed your values in the box, and it worked!. Thanks much for your help. Suzanne, you did so well with my first question, I'd like to pose another. If you copy a Forms Field to another location, it contains a blank Bookmark. So, is there way to automatically assign Bookmarks to Form Fields that are blank (empty)? Bernie |
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There's an article at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ameToFmFld.htm that describes the process of assigning a name to a form field, but it's only a quick description of a workaround for the obvious but unworkable approach. A complete macro could be designed around that process, but the question that must be answered first is, "What name do you want the new field to have?" The first answer that comes to mind is to imitate Word's default: for a text form field, assign "Text" followed by the next unused number. However, we usually advise assigning a meaningful name related to the field's purpose. For that, the macro would have to display a box to ask you for the name. If you're going to do that, you might as well just double-click the new field and enter the name directly into the standard Properties dialog. -- 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 Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:06:47 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There may be, but it would probably require VBA (a macro), which is beyond my capability, but others here may be able to help. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org [snip] Suzanne, you did so well with my first question, I'd like to pose another. If you copy a Forms Field to another location, it contains a blank Bookmark. So, is there way to automatically assign Bookmarks to Form Fields that are blank (empty)? Bernie |
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