[Todd Weiss]

Dear Users,

I have 2 questions about using the data entry forms to save data in a text
file using MS Office Word 2003. 1) I seem to be able to replace the text
file, however I cannot update it? Do you have any idea how to do this? 2) I
assume at the time that a user would enter data into the data entry form that
the form itself would be protected. In the protected mode I see no way of
resetting the fields to enter a new record. Can you help me out with this as
well? I am grateful for any assistance that you are able to provide.



Best,



Todd Weiss, MSPH, MPH
Research Associate
Program in Personalized Medicine & Targeted Therapeutics
300 Technology Building
Rm 309 T2
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4021

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi todd,

I have 2 questions about using the data entry forms to save data in a text
file using MS Office Word 2003. 1) I seem to be able to replace the text
file, however I cannot update it? Do you have any idea how to do this? 2) I
assume at the time that a user would enter data into the data entry form that
the form itself would be protected. In the protected mode I see no way of
resetting the fields to enter a new record. Can you help me out with this as
well?

In a nutshell: Forms created in Word documents, using form fields, don't work
like that. Keep in mind: Word is primarily a word processor. Form fields were
originally conceived for quickly filling information in, that would then be
printed out. Making the data available for data processing is something of an
after thought. So (1) is not possible, you'd have to "Save As" to a different
file name.

(2) can be achieved by clicking the "eraser" button on the Forms toolbar.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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