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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
I work for a company of about 75 employees. We are currently trying to
create some forms for use in inspections by our employees. I have the forms created but when I try to complete one of the forms, you cannot tab through the forms. The form that I have created has a lot of text fields for descriptions of what they are finding during the inspections so this may be causing the problem. Our whole goal in creating these forms is to speed up the process of our employees completing these inspection reports, so tabbing through the fields is a must. I have read that in some of the older versions of word, you can get the fields so that they can be tabbed, but then you lose the ability to spell check the document. Is 2007 still like this? Any help you can provide would be appreciated. |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
Once the Word document is protected for forms, you can tab from one
field to the next. You can spellcheck protected Word documents using the macro at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm . whitlecj wrote: I work for a company of about 75 employees. We are currently trying to create some forms for use in inspections by our employees. I have the forms created but when I try to complete one of the forms, you cannot tab through the forms. The form that I have created has a lot of text fields for descriptions of what they are finding during the inspections so this may be causing the problem. Our whole goal in creating these forms is to speed up the process of our employees completing these inspection reports, so tabbing through the fields is a must. I have read that in some of the older versions of word, you can get the fields so that they can be tabbed, but then you lose the ability to spell check the document. Is 2007 still like this? Any help you can provide would be appreciated. |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is
in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Once the Word document is protected for forms, you can tab from one field to the next. You can spellcheck protected Word documents using the macro at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm . whitlecj wrote: I work for a company of about 75 employees. We are currently trying to create some forms for use in inspections by our employees. I have the forms created but when I try to complete one of the forms, you cannot tab through the forms. The form that I have created has a lot of text fields for descriptions of what they are finding during the inspections so this may be causing the problem. Our whole goal in creating these forms is to speed up the process of our employees completing these inspection reports, so tabbing through the fields is a must. I have read that in some of the older versions of word, you can get the fields so that they can be tabbed, but then you lose the ability to spell check the document. Is 2007 still like this? Any help you can provide would be appreciated. |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
You should be able to tab through the fields in Word 2007. Which controls
did you use for the form? The new Content Controls (in the Controls group on the Developer tab) or those found under the Legacy Tools (also Controls group under the Legacy Tools drop down)? Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Once the Word document is protected for forms, you can tab from one field to the next. You can spellcheck protected Word documents using the macro at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm . whitlecj wrote: I work for a company of about 75 employees. We are currently trying to create some forms for use in inspections by our employees. I have the forms created but when I try to complete one of the forms, you cannot tab through the forms. The form that I have created has a lot of text fields for descriptions of what they are finding during the inspections so this may be causing the problem. Our whole goal in creating these forms is to speed up the process of our employees completing these inspection reports, so tabbing through the fields is a must. I have read that in some of the older versions of word, you can get the fields so that they can be tabbed, but then you lose the ability to spell check the document. Is 2007 still like this? Any help you can provide would be appreciated. |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
I used the new controls, not the legacy. I mainly used text fields.
"Beth Melton" wrote: You should be able to tab through the fields in Word 2007. Which controls did you use for the form? The new Content Controls (in the Controls group on the Developer tab) or those found under the Legacy Tools (also Controls group under the Legacy Tools drop down)? Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Once the Word document is protected for forms, you can tab from one field to the next. You can spellcheck protected Word documents using the macro at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm . whitlecj wrote: I work for a company of about 75 employees. We are currently trying to create some forms for use in inspections by our employees. I have the forms created but when I try to complete one of the forms, you cannot tab through the forms. The form that I have created has a lot of text fields for descriptions of what they are finding during the inspections so this may be causing the problem. Our whole goal in creating these forms is to speed up the process of our employees completing these inspection reports, so tabbing through the fields is a must. I have read that in some of the older versions of word, you can get the fields so that they can be tabbed, but then you lose the ability to spell check the document. Is 2007 still like this? Any help you can provide would be appreciated. |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
I could not get the tab key to advance from field to field in Word07 forms,
either. Using Word07 on WinXP "Beth Melton" wrote: You should be able to tab through the fields in Word 2007. Which controls did you use for the form? The new Content Controls (in the Controls group on the Developer tab) or those found under the Legacy Tools (also Controls group under the Legacy Tools drop down)? Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Once the Word document is protected for forms, you can tab from one field to the next. You can spellcheck protected Word documents using the macro at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm . whitlecj wrote: I work for a company of about 75 employees. We are currently trying to create some forms for use in inspections by our employees. I have the forms created but when I try to complete one of the forms, you cannot tab through the forms. The form that I have created has a lot of text fields for descriptions of what they are finding during the inspections so this may be causing the problem. Our whole goal in creating these forms is to speed up the process of our employees completing these inspection reports, so tabbing through the fields is a must. I have read that in some of the older versions of word, you can get the fields so that they can be tabbed, but then you lose the ability to spell check the document. Is 2007 still like this? Any help you can provide would be appreciated. |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
If you want to be able to tab from field to field then you need to use the
Legacy controls. Content Controls do not incorporate the same tabbing functionality. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I used the new controls, not the legacy. I mainly used text fields. "Beth Melton" wrote: You should be able to tab through the fields in Word 2007. Which controls did you use for the form? The new Content Controls (in the Controls group on the Developer tab) or those found under the Legacy Tools (also Controls group under the Legacy Tools drop down)? "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
If you are using the legacy controls (Word form fields) then did you protect
the document? Document protection is required if you want to take advantage of the tab functionality. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "JR Hester" wrote in message ... I could not get the tab key to advance from field to field in Word07 forms, either. Using Word07 on WinXP "Beth Melton" wrote: You should be able to tab through the fields in Word 2007. Which controls did you use for the form? The new Content Controls (in the Controls group on the Developer tab) or those found under the Legacy Tools (also Controls group under the Legacy Tools drop down)? Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote: Once the Word document is protected for forms, you can tab from one field to the next. You can spellcheck protected Word documents using the macro at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ProtectDoc.htm . whitlecj wrote: I work for a company of about 75 employees. We are currently trying to create some forms for use in inspections by our employees. I have the forms created but when I try to complete one of the forms, you cannot tab through the forms. The form that I have created has a lot of text fields for descriptions of what they are finding during the inspections so this may be causing the problem. Our whole goal in creating these forms is to speed up the process of our employees completing these inspection reports, so tabbing through the fields is a must. I have read that in some of the older versions of word, you can get the fields so that they can be tabbed, but then you lose the ability to spell check the document. Is 2007 still like this? Any help you can provide would be appreciated. |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
I am also needing to make sure the users who are not using Word 2007 can
utilize the forms. I am assuming using Legacy controls gives you the best opportunity to do this. Is this correct? Also, is there any special way I need to save the template to allow users of previous versions of Word to utilize them? "Beth Melton" wrote: If you want to be able to tab from field to field then you need to use the Legacy controls. Content Controls do not incorporate the same tabbing functionality. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I used the new controls, not the legacy. I mainly used text fields. "Beth Melton" wrote: You should be able to tab through the fields in Word 2007. Which controls did you use for the form? The new Content Controls (in the Controls group on the Developer tab) or those found under the Legacy Tools (also Controls group under the Legacy Tools drop down)? "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply |
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Creating Tabbable (is that a word?) Forms in Word 2007
If you need to create a template that can be used in Word 2007 and previous
versions then, yes, you must use the Legacy controls. Content Controls will be converted to static text. In order to share the template it needs to be saved in the 97-2003 file format. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I am also needing to make sure the users who are not using Word 2007 can utilize the forms. I am assuming using Legacy controls gives you the best opportunity to do this. Is this correct? Also, is there any special way I need to save the template to allow users of previous versions of Word to utilize them? "Beth Melton" wrote: If you want to be able to tab from field to field then you need to use the Legacy controls. Content Controls do not incorporate the same tabbing functionality. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I used the new controls, not the legacy. I mainly used text fields. "Beth Melton" wrote: You should be able to tab through the fields in Word 2007. Which controls did you use for the form? The new Content Controls (in the Controls group on the Developer tab) or those found under the Legacy Tools (also Controls group under the Legacy Tools drop down)? "whitlecj" wrote in message ... I have protected the document and I cannot tab through the fields. This is in office 2007 if that matters. I found a post further down where someone responded that you could not tab the fields but that you had to use the arrow keys. The arrow keys do work but I would still like to be able to tab. Thanks for the quick reply |
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