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how to have checkboxes and type text while form protected
I am trying to create a document where the user can check boxes and type text
simultaneously in seperate spaces provided. When the document is protected you can easily check or uncheck boxes but not add text. When it is unprotected you can type text but then when you click on the boxes a 'check box window form field options' window pops up. How can I avoid this window from popping up when a user is filling out the form? |
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Dan wrote:
I am trying to create a document where the user can check boxes and type text simultaneously in seperate spaces provided. When the document is protected you can easily check or uncheck boxes but not add text. When it is unprotected you can type text but then when you click on the boxes a 'check box window form field options' window pops up. How can I avoid this window from popping up when a user is filling out the form? Either: Provide text form fields where you want users to type, and protect the whole document. or: Put a section break (usually a continuous break) between the area that contains the check boxes and the area where the users should type. Then in the Tools Protect Document dialog, after selecting the Forms option button, click the Sections button and uncheck the section that should not be protected. You can have more than just one section break if you need to alternate protected and unprotected sections. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Use text formfields. They are on the Forms toolbar. What you are talking
about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm. Hope this helps, -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Dan" wrote in message ... I am trying to create a document where the user can check boxes and type text simultaneously in seperate spaces provided. When the document is protected you can easily check or uncheck boxes but not add text. When it is unprotected you can type text but then when you click on the boxes a 'check box window form field options' window pops up. How can I avoid this window from popping up when a user is filling out the form? |
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