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formatting problems in Word
I'm in a Serious Quandry over this problem! My clients are sending me formd
that have to be filled in right away, but when I open them in Word 2007, all the blanks are filled with "form text," or "form checkbox" The form is such a mess I cannot even see the question asked. It should look like " check excellent, good, fair, bad" and so on, the are that needs filling in has that gray/ black box tou type into. These forms are very time sensitive, and I'm going to loose these Accts if I can't fix this right away. Can anyone out there help me, please? |
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Close the form document. Press Alt+F9 to toggle field display. Reopen the
form. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Stepp" wrote in message ... I'm in a Serious Quandry over this problem! My clients are sending me formd that have to be filled in right away, but when I open them in Word 2007, all the blanks are filled with "form text," or "form checkbox" The form is such a mess I cannot even see the question asked. It should look like " check excellent, good, fair, bad" and so on, the are that needs filling in has that gray/ black box tou type into. These forms are very time sensitive, and I'm going to loose these Accts if I can't fix this right away. Can anyone out there help me, please? |
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Suzanne,
It worked!! I cannot express my gratitude enough, however it leaves me with a few more questions. Do I have to do this everytime I get I'm sent in a new case file, or is there a more permanent fix, or is this it? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Close the form document. Press Alt+F9 to toggle field display. Reopen the form. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Stepp" wrote in message ... I'm in a Serious Quandry over this problem! My clients are sending me formd that have to be filled in right away, but when I open them in Word 2007, all the blanks are filled with "form text," or "form checkbox" The form is such a mess I cannot even see the question asked. It should look like " check excellent, good, fair, bad" and so on, the are that needs filling in has that gray/ black box tou type into. These forms are very time sensitive, and I'm going to loose these Accts if I can't fix this right away. Can anyone out there help me, please? |
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When you open any document, Word uses the settings in effect on your system.
One of these is the visibility of field codes. If your documents don't ordinarily contain field codes, you may not notice whether field codes or field results are displayed (Alt+F9 is the shortcut used to toggle the display), but you can change this setting either with the shortcut or with the check box on the View tab of Tools | Options. Provided that field codes are not displayed when you quit Word, that setting should be saved, and you should not have a problem with future documents or forms containing field codes. In an ordinary document, switching the view is not a problem; it's only in forms that this and many other commands are disabled, which is why you have to close the form, toggle the view, and then reopen the form. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Stepp" wrote in message ... Suzanne, It worked!! I cannot express my gratitude enough, however it leaves me with a few more questions. Do I have to do this everytime I get I'm sent in a new case file, or is there a more permanent fix, or is this it? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Close the form document. Press Alt+F9 to toggle field display. Reopen the form. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Stepp" wrote in message ... I'm in a Serious Quandry over this problem! My clients are sending me formd that have to be filled in right away, but when I open them in Word 2007, all the blanks are filled with "form text," or "form checkbox" The form is such a mess I cannot even see the question asked. It should look like " check excellent, good, fair, bad" and so on, the are that needs filling in has that gray/ black box tou type into. These forms are very time sensitive, and I'm going to loose these Accts if I can't fix this right away. Can anyone out there help me, please? |
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If you add the following macro to a toolbar button you can toggle the
display regardless of whether the form is locked. Sub FieldCodes() ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = Not ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes Application.DisplayStatusBar = True End Sub http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Stepp wrote: Suzanne, It worked!! I cannot express my gratitude enough, however it leaves me with a few more questions. Do I have to do this everytime I get I'm sent in a new case file, or is there a more permanent fix, or is this it? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Close the form document. Press Alt+F9 to toggle field display. Reopen the form. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Stepp" wrote in message ... I'm in a Serious Quandry over this problem! My clients are sending me formd that have to be filled in right away, but when I open them in Word 2007, all the blanks are filled with "form text," or "form checkbox" The form is such a mess I cannot even see the question asked. It should look like " check excellent, good, fair, bad" and so on, the are that needs filling in has that gray/ black box tou type into. These forms are very time sensitive, and I'm going to loose these Accts if I can't fix this right away. Can anyone out there help me, please? |
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