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Using long help texts with Text Form Fields
I am creating a form with - among other fields - also a bunch of Text
Form Fields. I want to use the Add Help Text feature to add my own Status Bar Text and Help Key (F1) Text. I want to use a rather long Help Key text, longer that Word permits me. It seems like Word is truncating my text at appr. 255 characters. I want to use a slightly longer Help text. How can I do this? Many thanks, Ina Schomaker |
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Using long help texts with Text Form Fields
Hi Ina
I am creating a form with - among other fields - also a bunch of Text Form Fields. I want to use the Add Help Text feature to add my own Status Bar Text and Help Key (F1) Text. I want to use a rather long Help Key text, longer that Word permits me. It seems like Word is truncating my text at appr. 255 characters. I want to use a slightly longer Help text. How can I do this? The only possibility I can imagine is to try the AutoText entry option. But if the limitation is in the message that is displayed (rather than the storage of typing in your own message), then the F1 approach isn't going to work. In that case, I could imagine creating a macro that displays a MsgBox (or a UserForm) with the message appropriate to each field. (The macro would use something like SelectCase to determine in which form field the user has the focus.) Assign the macro to some other keyboard shortcut. You could then use F1 to instruct the user how to get the form-specific help by pressing that other key combination. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Using long help texts with Text Form Fields
Thanks for your suggestions, Cindy. Unfortunately, they didn't help
me. I tried the Autotext feature, it didn't work. I also tried Autocorrect, didn't work either. I am making a template, that contains a protected form. I think Autotext doesn't work because the form is protected. I defined the Autotext entry with the protection off, that worked. But when I created a new doc, based on the protected template, I saw the original text and Autotext had not done anything. The Autotext tab was greyed out when I looked at Tools - AutoCorrect Options. And unfortunately it is not possible for me to use macro's. I had to start with a company letter template to ensure the company style. And in those templates the VBA code and macro's are password protected and you are not supposed to change anything there. So I am severely 'handicapped' by this. My options are very limited. I think my only option now is to condense the help text so that it will fit in 255 characters. I think my client will not be so happy with that... And I forgot to say in my first message: I am working with Word 2003 SP3 Thank you, Ina Schomaker |
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Using long help texts with Text Form Fields
Hi Ina
Thanks for your suggestions, Cindy. Unfortunately, they didn't help me. I tried the Autotext feature, it didn't work. I also tried Autocorrect, didn't work either. I am making a template, that contains a protected form. I think Autotext doesn't work because the form is protected. I defined the Autotext entry with the protection off, that worked. But when I created a new doc, based on the protected template, I saw the original text and Autotext had not done anything. The Autotext tab was greyed out when I looked at Tools - AutoCorrect Options. I think there's a misunderstanding about what I meant by "AutoText". If you take a look in the dialog box for creating Help entries, there are two options: AutoText and "Type your own". I was talking about creating AutoText entries, then linking them with the form field. And unfortunately it is not possible for me to use macro's. I had to start with a company letter template to ensure the company style. And in those templates the VBA code and macro's are password protected and you are not supposed to change anything there. So I am severely 'handicapped' by this. My options are very limited. I think my only option now is to condense the help text so that it will fit in 255 characters. I think my client will not be so happy with that... Mmm, there may be a way to work with macros. You could distribute an additional template with the form. It would need to be stored in the user's Startup directory. (Or you could ask those who are allowed to change the macros to load it into the Addins collection.) This should make the macros available. And I forgot to say in my first message: I am working with Word 2003 SP3 Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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