How to increase a text form field size

[Steve]

I am creating a form in Word. The shaded box is small in length. Although
the size is set to unlimited, when the user types something in the box you
cannot see everything the user types.

How can I set the form field properties so if a person wanted to type
something like (like an address), they can see everything they have typed in
the field?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmU=?=,

I am creating a form in Word. The shaded box is small in length. Although
the size is set to unlimited, when the user types something in the box you
cannot see everything the user types.

How can I set the form field properties so if a person wanted to type
something like (like an address), they can see everything they have typed in
the field?

Is this textbox from the Forms toolbar, or the Controls Toolbox? If the former,
have you inserted it into a Table, Textbox, or Frame?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Steve]

Hi, Cindy:

It's the Forms Toolbar, and no, I haven't inserted in a table, etc. What
am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?U3RldmU=?=,

It's the Forms Toolbar, and no, I haven't inserted in a table, etc. What
am I doing wrong?

Quite honestly, I don't know. I can think of two possibilities

1. A problem with your graphics card driver

2. Damaged internal structures in the document that are making it behave
incorrectly.

Which version of Word are we dealing with, here? Does the problem occur only in
this one document, or in any form you try to create?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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