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Text box as a required field
Is it still impossible in MS Word 2003 to B require/B the
form-filler-outer to put an answer in a text box without having to write a macro or do the sequential number deal? |
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On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:58:01 -0700, Katushka
wrote: Is it still impossible in MS Word 2003 to B require/B the form-filler-outer to put an answer in a text box without having to write a macro or do the sequential number deal? That's correct. Nothing has changed in that regard for Word 2003.. Look for a new feature in Word 2007 that will remedy this and many other problems with forms. -- 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. |
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Can you refer me to a help source for the macro or sequential number
solution? Whichever you think is the easiest/best (unless they are no good in the first place)!! "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:58:01 -0700, Katushka wrote: Is it still impossible in MS Word 2003 to B require/B the form-filler-outer to put an answer in a text box without having to write a macro or do the sequential number deal? That's correct. Nothing has changed in that regard for Word 2003.. Look for a new feature in Word 2007 that will remedy this and many other problems with forms. -- 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. |
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Text box as a required field
Requiring the user to put something/anything in a field is a special
case of the technique called "validation". You can adapt the macro shown at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...ateFFields.htm. If all you want to check is that there's some text in the field but you don't care what it is, change the line If Len(.Result) 0 And Left$(.Result, 3) "KLM" Then to If Len(.Result) = 0 Then I don't understand how you connect this problem to sequential numbers. If you're trying to generate a series of numbers within a single document, use {SEQ} fields. If you want each document to have a unique serial number, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/NumberDocs.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 8 May 2006 09:55:02 -0700, Katushka wrote: Can you refer me to a help source for the macro or sequential number solution? Whichever you think is the easiest/best (unless they are no good in the first place)!! "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:58:01 -0700, Katushka wrote: Is it still impossible in MS Word 2003 to B require/B the form-filler-outer to put an answer in a text box without having to write a macro or do the sequential number deal? That's correct. Nothing has changed in that regard for Word 2003.. Look for a new feature in Word 2007 that will remedy this and many other problems with forms. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thanks a million, Jay, I'll give it a try!
I don't know what I'm talking about with the Sequential stuff either. I just read something about on another post... "Jay Freedman" wrote: Requiring the user to put something/anything in a field is a special case of the technique called "validation". You can adapt the macro shown at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...ateFFields.htm. If all you want to check is that there's some text in the field but you don't care what it is, change the line If Len(.Result) 0 And Left$(.Result, 3) "KLM" Then to If Len(.Result) = 0 Then I don't understand how you connect this problem to sequential numbers. If you're trying to generate a series of numbers within a single document, use {SEQ} fields. If you want each document to have a unique serial number, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/NumberDocs.htm. -- 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 Mon, 8 May 2006 09:55:02 -0700, Katushka wrote: Can you refer me to a help source for the macro or sequential number solution? Whichever you think is the easiest/best (unless they are no good in the first place)!! "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:58:01 -0700, Katushka wrote: Is it still impossible in MS Word 2003 to B require/B the form-filler-outer to put an answer in a text box without having to write a macro or do the sequential number deal? That's correct. Nothing has changed in that regard for Word 2003.. Look for a new feature in Word 2007 that will remedy this and many other problems with forms. -- 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. |
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