I have twenty or so documents where I want all the form field font styles to
be the same. What can I do so that, when I create a form field, its font is
automatically formatted with my desired style?

PS - I have a style already created, called "Form Field." I just want to know
how to get form fields to use that by default so I don't have to apply the
formatting manually to each field in all the documents.

Thanks,

mike

"mikey" wrote:

I have twenty or so documents where I want all the form field font styles to
be the same. What can I do so that, when I create a form field, its font is
automatically formatted with my desired style?

Hi Mike,

Since the documents already exist, you should use the Edit Replace
dialog to apply the style to the fields. If the fields are not the
only text in the paragraphs that contain them, the style should be a
character style rather than a paragraph style.

Open one document and unprotect it. Press Alt+F9 to display field
codes. Open the Edit Replace dialog and click the More button.

In the Find What box, enter

^d FORMTEXT

In the Replace With box, enter

^&

which is the code for "the text that was found". Now click the Format
button and select Style; in the next dialog, select your Form Field
style and click OK.

Back in the Replace dialog, click the Replace All button. Close the
dialog, press Alt+F9 again to collapse the fields, protect the
document, and save. Repeat for the other documents.

If you need to do this with a macro that will process all the
documents at one go, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm.

For future documents, you can automate the insert-and-format procedure
by inserting this macro in your template and replacing the text field
button on the Forms toolbar with a button that runs the macro.

Public Sub InsertTextFormField()
Dim oRg As Range

On Error Resume Next
Set oRg = Selection.Range
ActiveDocument.FormFields.Add Range:=oRg, _
Type:=wdFieldFormTextInput
oRg.MoveEnd unit:=wdWord, Count:=1
oRg.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Form Field")
Set oRg = Nothing
End Sub

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:29:01 -0700, "mikey"
wrote:

PS - I have a style already created, called "Form Field." I just want to know
how to get form fields to use that by default so I don't have to apply the
formatting manually to each field in all the documents.

Thanks,

mike

"mikey" wrote:

I have twenty or so documents where I want all the form field font styles to
be the same. What can I do so that, when I create a form field, its font is
automatically formatted with my desired style?