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MS Office Word 2003 Data Entry Form
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. |
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MS Office Word 2003 Data Entry Form
1) I seem to be able to replace the text
file, however I cannot update it? No. if you need to save data from the form into an existing file, you will need to do it in a macro and present the user with a suitable button (or whatever) to initiate the macro. There's more about this and Word forms in general at http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html#autoforms 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. You can provide the user with a macro that unprotects and reprotects the form, and provide them with a button that invokes the macro (although protecting a document for forms greys out a lot of menu items and buttons, buttons that execute macros are available. For example, the following macro will unprotect/reprotect a form: Sub clearform() ActiveDocument.Unprotect Password:="abc" ActiveDocument.Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields, _ noreset:=False, Password:="abc" End Sub Peter Jamieson "Todd Weiss" wrote in message ... 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. |
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