Form Feild Formatting Frustrations -- Please Help ME

[Dax Arroway]

My company upgraded some of us to... the new one (No Help>About anymore so I
can't look up the version) but it's the new one... 07 I think. And I'm on a
Windows based PC. Anyway,

I'm trying to develop and design forms with form feilds. Best I like to use
is the Legacy Fields (because not everyone in the company has made the switch
so Word docs saved as .docx don't open for them and I can't use the 'normal'
tools when the form is in 'compability mode').

I'm having trouble controling the formatting. I can select 'underline' and
insert a fill in field but when I lock the doc and actually fill in some text
into the textbox, the font formatting isn't what the rest of the paragraph is
and the underline goes away. IOW, the formatting changes.

Does anyone know how to control these??? Or can someone please point me to
a tutorial about how to do this or give me some best practices? Any help
would be appreciated as I make lots of forms all day and none of them are
behaving the way they should (or the way the did when I was on Word 03!)

Thanks for your help in advance!

 

[Dax Arroway]

Anyone got an answer to this? I'm thinkin it's a pretty common thing and
dying minds want to know! *smile* --dax

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

How did you apply the underlining? If I insert a FormField and then select
it and then use the Underline button on the Home tab, the formfield is
underlined and then when the document is protected, that text that is
entered into that FormField is underlined.

In what way is the font of the text in FormField different from that in the
rest of the paragraph? Have you applied the same font to the FormField?

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[Dax Arroway]

Thanks for responding. The underlining is applied by Tabbing over. So:
Name, semicolon, space, underline selected, Tab, Tab. Then I insert a text
field between the two tabs and lock the form. When I type into the box the
underline goes away.

That's what happened when I opened a blank doc and just typed that part.
The issue of the font changes happen when I'm changing a pre-done form, which
someone created to be printed and filled out, and I'm inserting form fields
throughout it so people can fill them out on the computer instead. In these
cases, the form's font is Arial but the form fields are Times New Roman & the
underlines go away.

Do I have to set and apply a style to the fields? Or is there a better
practice to doing this?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Do this:

Name, semi-colon, space, insert FormField, then select the FormField and
apply the underlining to it. Then protect your document.

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[Dax Arroway]

Yep, tried that. Simple. Opened new doc, typed: Name, semicolon, a few
spaces. Went to Developer\Controls\Legacy Tools\insert text box. Inserted
the text box. Made sure the box was selected and then underlined it
(ctrl+U). Protected the doc by checking the "Limit formatting to a selection
of styles" check box under 1. Formatting restrictions and the "Allow only
this type of editing in the document: Filling in Forms" under 2. Editing
restrictions, and lastly: Yes, Start Enforcing Protection. Underline is
there. Start typing in the box, underline goes away. Ahhhh!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Omit the Lmit formatting to a selection of styles step and it will work.

Protecting the document for Filling in Forms by itself will prevent you from
changing styles in the document.

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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

Yep, tried that. Simple. Opened new doc, typed: Name, semicolon, a few
spaces. Went to Developer\Controls\Legacy Tools\insert text box.
Inserted
the text box. Made sure the box was selected and then underlined it
(ctrl+U). Protected the doc by checking the "Limit formatting to a
selection
of styles" check box under 1. Formatting restrictions and the "Allow only
this type of editing in the document: Filling in Forms" under 2. Editing
restrictions, and lastly: Yes, Start Enforcing Protection. Underline is
there. Start typing in the box, underline goes away. Ahhhh!

 

[Dax Arroway]

HALLELEUYHA!!! THANK YOU. It's always the simple things, isn't it!