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I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms
in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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Click the Office button, and then click Word Options. In the Popular
category, select "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon." Click OK. On the Developer tab, click Protect Document to display the Restrict Editing and Formatting pane (if it isn't already showing of course). To turn off protection, click Stop Protection. You can double-click a field to set its properties; to add new fields, click the Legacy Tools button. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful
when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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thank you very much indeed.
Margaret PS why have Microsoft made such a dreadful version of Word, you cannot customise the button bar, add macros and menus to it, or even group clipart together !! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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Thank you very much indeed. Very grateful for the help.
Margaret "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Click the Office button, and then click Word Options. In the Popular category, select "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon." Click OK. On the Developer tab, click Protect Document to display the Restrict Editing and Formatting pane (if it isn't already showing of course). To turn off protection, click Stop Protection. You can double-click a field to set its properties; to add new fields, click the Legacy Tools button. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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You are welcome.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Thank you very much indeed. Very grateful for the help. Margaret "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Click the Office button, and then click Word Options. In the Popular category, select "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon." Click OK. On the Developer tab, click Protect Document to display the Restrict Editing and Formatting pane (if it isn't already showing of course). To turn off protection, click Stop Protection. You can double-click a field to set its properties; to add new fields, click the Legacy Tools button. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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Yes you can - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... thank you very much indeed. Margaret PS why have Microsoft made such a dreadful version of Word, you cannot customise the button bar, add macros and menus to it, or even group clipart together !! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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graham, its me again. Just come to try the commands on the page for Add
Classic Controls to Ribbon and I cannot find where you download the Custom UI Editor application. I seem to have gone round and round and never seem to come to anything that actually says download the Custom UI Editor. I have followed link after link and cannot find it. I am probably being stupid, but I simply cannot find it. I am sure its not on my system, because it is not in office tools (which I presume you would find it ?). Please can I ask you again for help as exactly where to find the download and what it is called. I have looked through the download section on Microsoft's page too. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Yes you can - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Customize_Ribbon.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... thank you very much indeed. Margaret PS why have Microsoft made such a dreadful version of Word, you cannot customise the button bar, add macros and menus to it, or even group clipart together !! "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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Graham
Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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I think you may be confusing the contents of two posts. I don't recall
giving you any code to enter into the UI editor? The UI Editor is a means whereby you can edit the ribbon. As for the forms tools, you can copy and paste the ribbon code from Greg Maxey's web site - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm which adds the ribbon modifications in the developer tab. If you have done this, then you need to restart Word to load the add-in template. You will see the extra commands on the Developer Tab. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Graham Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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Hello Graham
Sorry to be such a pain. What I meant to say, is that I have followed all it said in the article from Greg, pasted the text into the UI editor and nothing has happened, there is still not anything to lock a form on the toolbar, even after restarting Word and the computer. When I tried to delete the template and start again, it would not let me remove it in Word as it said the file was being used, so its obviously there. I deleted in in Windows explorer and started again, but nothing appears on the ribbon. Any ideas. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I think you may be confusing the contents of two posts. I don't recall giving you any code to enter into the UI editor? The UI Editor is a means whereby you can edit the ribbon. As for the forms tools, you can copy and paste the ribbon code from Greg Maxey's web site - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm which adds the ribbon modifications in the developer tab. If you have done this, then you need to restart Word to load the add-in template. You will see the extra commands on the Developer Tab. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Graham Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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See response to your post in the word.vba.beginners newsgroup.
-- Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - Word MVP Please reply only to the newsgroups unless you wish to obtain my services on a paid professional basis. "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Hello Graham Sorry to be such a pain. What I meant to say, is that I have followed all it said in the article from Greg, pasted the text into the UI editor and nothing has happened, there is still not anything to lock a form on the toolbar, even after restarting Word and the computer. When I tried to delete the template and start again, it would not let me remove it in Word as it said the file was being used, so its obviously there. I deleted in in Windows explorer and started again, but nothing appears on the ribbon. Any ideas. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I think you may be confusing the contents of two posts. I don't recall giving you any code to enter into the UI editor? The UI Editor is a means whereby you can edit the ribbon. As for the forms tools, you can copy and paste the ribbon code from Greg Maxey's web site - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm which adds the ribbon modifications in the developer tab. If you have done this, then you need to restart Word to load the add-in template. You will see the extra commands on the Developer Tab. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Graham Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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Download a working version of the add-in from
http://www.gmayor.com/Extras/ClassicFormControls.zip -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Hello Graham Sorry to be such a pain. What I meant to say, is that I have followed all it said in the article from Greg, pasted the text into the UI editor and nothing has happened, there is still not anything to lock a form on the toolbar, even after restarting Word and the computer. When I tried to delete the template and start again, it would not let me remove it in Word as it said the file was being used, so its obviously there. I deleted in in Windows explorer and started again, but nothing appears on the ribbon. Any ideas. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I think you may be confusing the contents of two posts. I don't recall giving you any code to enter into the UI editor? The UI Editor is a means whereby you can edit the ribbon. As for the forms tools, you can copy and paste the ribbon code from Greg Maxey's web site - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm which adds the ribbon modifications in the developer tab. If you have done this, then you need to restart Word to load the add-in template. You will see the extra commands on the Developer Tab. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Graham Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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Thank you so much, very grateful for all you help.
Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Download a working version of the add-in from http://www.gmayor.com/Extras/ClassicFormControls.zip -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Hello Graham Sorry to be such a pain. What I meant to say, is that I have followed all it said in the article from Greg, pasted the text into the UI editor and nothing has happened, there is still not anything to lock a form on the toolbar, even after restarting Word and the computer. When I tried to delete the template and start again, it would not let me remove it in Word as it said the file was being used, so its obviously there. I deleted in in Windows explorer and started again, but nothing appears on the ribbon. Any ideas. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I think you may be confusing the contents of two posts. I don't recall giving you any code to enter into the UI editor? The UI Editor is a means whereby you can edit the ribbon. As for the forms tools, you can copy and paste the ribbon code from Greg Maxey's web site - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm which adds the ribbon modifications in the developer tab. If you have done this, then you need to restart Word to load the add-in template. You will see the extra commands on the Developer Tab. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Graham Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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me again, just used the working one and its brilliant THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Download a working version of the add-in from http://www.gmayor.com/Extras/ClassicFormControls.zip -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Hello Graham Sorry to be such a pain. What I meant to say, is that I have followed all it said in the article from Greg, pasted the text into the UI editor and nothing has happened, there is still not anything to lock a form on the toolbar, even after restarting Word and the computer. When I tried to delete the template and start again, it would not let me remove it in Word as it said the file was being used, so its obviously there. I deleted in in Windows explorer and started again, but nothing appears on the ribbon. Any ideas. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I think you may be confusing the contents of two posts. I don't recall giving you any code to enter into the UI editor? The UI Editor is a means whereby you can edit the ribbon. As for the forms tools, you can copy and paste the ribbon code from Greg Maxey's web site - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm which adds the ribbon modifications in the developer tab. If you have done this, then you need to restart Word to load the add-in template. You will see the extra commands on the Developer Tab. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Graham Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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You are welcome. However I am surprised that Greg didn't have this on his
download on his site ... especially as I have been recommending this page on the assumption that he did  . I have given him a nudge in the right direction.  -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... me again, just used the working one and its brilliant THANK YOU THANK YOU. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Download a working version of the add-in from http://www.gmayor.com/Extras/ClassicFormControls.zip -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Hello Graham Sorry to be such a pain. What I meant to say, is that I have followed all it said in the article from Greg, pasted the text into the UI editor and nothing has happened, there is still not anything to lock a form on the toolbar, even after restarting Word and the computer. When I tried to delete the template and start again, it would not let me remove it in Word as it said the file was being used, so its obviously there. I deleted in in Windows explorer and started again, but nothing appears on the ribbon. Any ideas. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... I think you may be confusing the contents of two posts. I don't recall giving you any code to enter into the UI editor? The UI Editor is a means whereby you can edit the ribbon. As for the forms tools, you can copy and paste the ribbon code from Greg Maxey's web site - http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm which adds the ribbon modifications in the developer tab. If you have done this, then you need to restart Word to load the add-in template. You will see the extra commands on the Developer Tab. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... Graham Can I ask for your help again please. I have downloaded the editor, created a template, saved it in the start up, opened it in the editor and pasted in the text on the link you gave me and I cannot see that anything has changed on the button bar. nothing has changed in the form section, still no lock template. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Margaret "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You will find http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Classic%20Form%20Controls.htm useful when working with protected forms in Word 2007. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Margaret Upton" wrote in message ... I am not a new Word user but a new user to Word 2007. I have created forms in Word 2003, put in the fields and locked them. I cannot find how to now create new forms and lock and unlock the ones I have. The computer is about to go through the window !!!! Can anyone help please. Also there does not seem to be a help button anywhere to find out these things. Would be very grateful for some help please. Margaret |
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