Problems with Text Form Fields

[Todd Jenkins]

I'm using text form fields in a document, but a very
annoying affect of this is that anytime I use the up or
down cursor arrow, the focus moves to the next field above
or below the active field.

I've review KB articles discussing problems with form
fields in Tables, and this has helped with another
problem, that of selecting individual words, but couldn't
find anything re. up/down cursors.

Any help would be appreciated.

Todd

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Todd,

I'm using text form fields in a document, but a very
annoying affect of this is that anytime I use the up or
down cursor arrow, the focus moves to the next field above
or below the active field.

Someone reported this in the German groups a few weeks ago. I
guess this has to be categorized as a bug... I worked out a
couple of simple macros you can assign to keyboard shortcuts
that will move correctly within the form field:

Sub MoveDownInFormField()
Selection.MoveDown wdLine, 1
End Sub


Sub MoveUpInFormField()
Selection.MoveUp wdLine, 1
End Sub


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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