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There's a feature I want to imitate that is often used with online testing.
The field you type your answer in says "Type your answer here." and when you
click in the field, the sentence disappears. Can you do this in Word? If
so, how?

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Yes, you can use MacroButtons. See:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...acroButton.htm

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There's a feature I want to imitate that is often used with online testing.
The field you type your answer in says "Type your answer here." and when you
click in the field, the sentence disappears. Can you do this in Word? If
so, how?

Nicole

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You can use a MacroButton NoMacro field for this; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...acroButton.htm.

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"Nicole" wrote in message
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There's a feature I want to imitate that is often used with online

testing.
The field you type your answer in says "Type your answer here." and when

you
click in the field, the sentence disappears. Can you do this in Word? If
so, how?

Nicole


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