Prevent double quote in form field

[Peter Thys]

I have a form with about 200 fields (word 2000). How to prevent a user from
entering double quotes in a text field, because save data only and importing
the resulting textfile will fail if an extra double quote is in the text
field. If this is not possible, can I change the export data only converter
to have another text delimiter as double quote.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I have a form with about 200 fields (word 2000). How to prevent a user from
entering double quotes in a text field, because save data only and importing
the resulting textfile will fail if an extra double quote is in the text
field. If this is not possible, can I change the export data only converter
to have another text delimiter as double quote.

The only possibility here would be a macro. Either one that fires when the user
exits a field that checks the field for double quotes. Or one that fires when
the user saves (checks all fields for double quotes). Or use a macro to extract
the data, instead of relying on the "save data only" option.

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

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