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Editing the Fill-in form field
I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007
File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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Editing the Fill-in form field
You had better ask this in a programming newsgroup such as
microsoft.public.word.vba.general. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "John" wrote: I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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To do this with a FILLIN field use the following field construction
{ = { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "John" wrote in message ... I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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It would also work with a quote field
{ Quote { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } but should work with the switch inside the fillin field alone { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" \# "(###) ###'-'####" } -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: To do this with a FILLIN field use the following field construction { = { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "John" wrote in message ... I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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I tried to copy & paste the code you provided into the FillIN field code area
but I kept getting "syntex error {}" in the grey field area. Why is this happening? -- John R. L. "Graham Mayor" wrote: It would also work with a quote field { Quote { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } but should work with the switch inside the fillin field alone { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" \# "(###) ###'-'####" } -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: To do this with a FILLIN field use the following field construction { = { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "John" wrote in message ... I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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Editing the Fill-in form field
Can you please tell me what to do step-by-step. I tried to copy & paste the
code into the code area but all I got was "Syntex error {}" What am I doing wrong? -- John R. L. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: To do this with a FILLIN field use the following field construction { = { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "John" wrote in message ... I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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I'm not that skilled to understand programming stuff too well. I was hoping
to find some step-by-step instructions on how to do this or maybe even a template that I could download that has this type of fill in field set up already so I could just copy it over to my current form. -- John R. L. "Stefan Blom" wrote: You had better ask this in a programming newsgroup such as microsoft.public.word.vba.general. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "John" wrote: I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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You cannot paste fields from a text editor such as this. The field
boundaries {} must be inserted with CTRL+F9 hence the error message. You can either select the relevant parts then press CTRL+F9 then delete the text brackets {} or type the lot using CTRL+F9 for each bracket pair. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John wrote: I tried to copy & paste the code you provided into the FillIN field code area but I kept getting "syntex error {}" in the grey field area. Why is this happening? It would also work with a quote field { Quote { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } but should work with the switch inside the fillin field alone { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" \# "(###) ###'-'####" } -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: To do this with a FILLIN field use the following field construction { = { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "John" wrote in message ... I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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Editing the Fill-in form field
As I said, you must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { }
and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "John" wrote in message news Can you please tell me what to do step-by-step. I tried to copy & paste the code into the code area but all I got was "Syntex error {}" What am I doing wrong? -- John R. L. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: To do this with a FILLIN field use the following field construction { = { FILLIN "Enter the Phone Number" } \# "(###) ###'-'####" } You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of Field Delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "John" wrote in message ... I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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Editing the Fill-in form field
Using fields, as suggested by Doug and Graham, should be easier.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "John" wrote in message ... I'm not that skilled to understand programming stuff too well. I was hoping to find some step-by-step instructions on how to do this or maybe even a template that I could download that has this type of fill in field set up already so I could just copy it over to my current form. -- John R. L. "Stefan Blom" wrote: You had better ask this in a programming newsgroup such as microsoft.public.word.vba.general. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "John" wrote: I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 File version: 12.0.6504.5000 I am working on cratig a form that can be filled out in an email message. I want to create a fill-in field that will display the phone number as shown below: (125) 124-1258. When the person enters the number they'd enter it as 1251241258. This means that the fill-in field should automaticly update itself after the user clicks after typing in the number in the promt dialog box. How can I make this happen? -- John R. L. |
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