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Clickable text in Word templates
I'm not sure what you call it in a template where MS has included text
Click here to enter your name or whatever, that when you click it the default text goes away and the new text replaces it, but I'd like to do that in a custom template. Since I don't know what it is, I don't know how to look for it in the help. Anyone know what that's called? TIA; Amy |
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Clickable text in Word templates
See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton,
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. -- 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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... I'm not sure what you call it in a template where MS has included text Click here to enter your name or whatever, that when you click it the default text goes away and the new text replaces it, but I'd like to do that in a custom template. Since I don't know what it is, I don't know how to look for it in the help. Anyone know what that's called? TIA; Amy |
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I haven't been able to find any difference between this and a regular text
field (i.e. when you click the text field the default text goes away and no trace of the original field seems to exist in the document). When I tried to insert a MacroButton field, it automatically selected the first macro on the list and did not seem to offer a way to type in the name of a nonexistent macro. I didn't want to add an empty macro named NoMacro, because many people get prompted when they try to view a doc with macros, and they think you're being sneaky. Are there any disadvantages to just using a text field instead? -Amy "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton, http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. -- 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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... I'm not sure what you call it in a template where MS has included text Click here to enter your name or whatever, that when you click it the default text goes away and the new text replaces it, but I'd like to do that in a custom template. Since I don't know what it is, I don't know how to look for it in the help. Anyone know what that's called? TIA; Amy |
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Hi Amy,
Don't try to use the Insert Field dialog for this. Just type the field code as plain text into the document, such as MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and type name] Select that text and press Ctrl+F9. That adds the field braces around it. Then press F9, or right-click it and select Update Field, to get the collapsed form. And you don't need any actual macro -- that's the point of typing "NoMacro" in the field. The idea is that the field does nothing when the user clicks it, except that it all becomes selected. The advantage of this over a text field is that in order to use a text field you have to protect the document for forms. That imposes all kinds of restrictions -- any part of the document that isn't a form field can't be edited. When you use a MacroButton field, there are no restrictions on the rest of the document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Amy Blankenship wrote: I haven't been able to find any difference between this and a regular text field (i.e. when you click the text field the default text goes away and no trace of the original field seems to exist in the document). When I tried to insert a MacroButton field, it automatically selected the first macro on the list and did not seem to offer a way to type in the name of a nonexistent macro. I didn't want to add an empty macro named NoMacro, because many people get prompted when they try to view a doc with macros, and they think you're being sneaky. Are there any disadvantages to just using a text field instead? -Amy "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton, http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. -- 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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... I'm not sure what you call it in a template where MS has included text Click here to enter your name or whatever, that when you click it the default text goes away and the new text replaces it, but I'd like to do that in a custom template. Since I don't know what it is, I don't know how to look for it in the help. Anyone know what that's called? TIA; Amy |
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I didn't protect my document, and I haven't noticed any ill effects. What
sorts of problems should I be seeing in my unprotected document that I'm not? "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Amy, Don't try to use the Insert Field dialog for this. Just type the field code as plain text into the document, such as MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and type name] Select that text and press Ctrl+F9. That adds the field braces around it. Then press F9, or right-click it and select Update Field, to get the collapsed form. And you don't need any actual macro -- that's the point of typing "NoMacro" in the field. The idea is that the field does nothing when the user clicks it, except that it all becomes selected. The advantage of this over a text field is that in order to use a text field you have to protect the document for forms. That imposes all kinds of restrictions -- any part of the document that isn't a form field can't be edited. When you use a MacroButton field, there are no restrictions on the rest of the document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Amy Blankenship wrote: I haven't been able to find any difference between this and a regular text field (i.e. when you click the text field the default text goes away and no trace of the original field seems to exist in the document). When I tried to insert a MacroButton field, it automatically selected the first macro on the list and did not seem to offer a way to type in the name of a nonexistent macro. I didn't want to add an empty macro named NoMacro, because many people get prompted when they try to view a doc with macros, and they think you're being sneaky. Are there any disadvantages to just using a text field instead? -Amy "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton, http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. -- 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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... I'm not sure what you call it in a template where MS has included text Click here to enter your name or whatever, that when you click it the default text goes away and the new text replaces it, but I'd like to do that in a custom template. Since I don't know what it is, I don't know how to look for it in the help. Anyone know what that's called? TIA; Amy |
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For the way you're using it, there's no practical difference between a
NoMacro-type MacroButton field and an unprotected text form field. There won't be any problems either way. The form field is _intended_ to be used in a protected document (read about it at http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22. In much the same sense, a MacroButton field is _intended_ to launch a macro. Either one can be used in an unintended manner, for which I'd say they're equivalent. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:41:41 -0500, "Amy Blankenship" wrote: I didn't protect my document, and I haven't noticed any ill effects. What sorts of problems should I be seeing in my unprotected document that I'm not? "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Amy, Don't try to use the Insert Field dialog for this. Just type the field code as plain text into the document, such as MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and type name] Select that text and press Ctrl+F9. That adds the field braces around it. Then press F9, or right-click it and select Update Field, to get the collapsed form. And you don't need any actual macro -- that's the point of typing "NoMacro" in the field. The idea is that the field does nothing when the user clicks it, except that it all becomes selected. The advantage of this over a text field is that in order to use a text field you have to protect the document for forms. That imposes all kinds of restrictions -- any part of the document that isn't a form field can't be edited. When you use a MacroButton field, there are no restrictions on the rest of the document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Amy Blankenship wrote: I haven't been able to find any difference between this and a regular text field (i.e. when you click the text field the default text goes away and no trace of the original field seems to exist in the document). When I tried to insert a MacroButton field, it automatically selected the first macro on the list and did not seem to offer a way to type in the name of a nonexistent macro. I didn't want to add an empty macro named NoMacro, because many people get prompted when they try to view a doc with macros, and they think you're being sneaky. Are there any disadvantages to just using a text field instead? -Amy "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton, http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. -- 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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... I'm not sure what you call it in a template where MS has included text Click here to enter your name or whatever, that when you click it the default text goes away and the new text replaces it, but I'd like to do that in a custom template. Since I don't know what it is, I don't know how to look for it in the help. Anyone know what that's called? TIA; Amy |
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OK, thanks
 "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... For the way you're using it, there's no practical difference between a NoMacro-type MacroButton field and an unprotected text form field. There won't be any problems either way. The form field is _intended_ to be used in a protected document (read about it at http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22. In much the same sense, a MacroButton field is _intended_ to launch a macro. Either one can be used in an unintended manner, for which I'd say they're equivalent. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:41:41 -0500, "Amy Blankenship" wrote: I didn't protect my document, and I haven't noticed any ill effects. What sorts of problems should I be seeing in my unprotected document that I'm not? "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Amy, Don't try to use the Insert Field dialog for this. Just type the field code as plain text into the document, such as MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and type name] Select that text and press Ctrl+F9. That adds the field braces around it. Then press F9, or right-click it and select Update Field, to get the collapsed form. And you don't need any actual macro -- that's the point of typing "NoMacro" in the field. The idea is that the field does nothing when the user clicks it, except that it all becomes selected. The advantage of this over a text field is that in order to use a text field you have to protect the document for forms. That imposes all kinds of restrictions -- any part of the document that isn't a form field can't be edited. When you use a MacroButton field, there are no restrictions on the rest of the document. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Amy Blankenship wrote: I haven't been able to find any difference between this and a regular text field (i.e. when you click the text field the default text goes away and no trace of the original field seems to exist in the document). When I tried to insert a MacroButton field, it automatically selected the first macro on the list and did not seem to offer a way to type in the name of a nonexistent macro. I didn't want to add an empty macro named NoMacro, because many people get prompted when they try to view a doc with macros, and they think you're being sneaky. Are there any disadvantages to just using a text field instead? -Amy "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide...tm#MacroButton, http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm for more about macrobutton fields. -- 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! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "Amy Blankenship" wrote in message ... I'm not sure what you call it in a template where MS has included text Click here to enter your name or whatever, that when you click it the default text goes away and the new text replaces it, but I'd like to do that in a custom template. Since I don't know what it is, I don't know how to look for it in the help. Anyone know what that's called? TIA; Amy |
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