Tabbing not working correctly in some documents

[luv2bike2]

There are several documents that were created a long time ago by a user who
is no longer with the company. the documents have tabing going on.
ie:
Date:
Time:
From:
To:

after each word there is a gray box that the person can type in the
information that is needed, than the user presses the down arrow key to go to
the next line and at the begining of the gray box and is able to type in what
they need to type in, down arrows again and this goes on until all
information is entered. one of the documents is fine, however there are a
couple of documents that are set up the same way but when the user presses
the down arrow, the cursor does not go to the beginning of the box it just
goes to the same spot the cursor was in on the above line.
I tried to compare two of the documents property page however i can with the
"good" document, but with the other document properties is grayed out and i
can not view it.

2 questions:
1) how can i get the documents that will not work properly when you down
arrow key after you enter the information in to go to the begining of the
gray box and not at the spot where the cursor was in the box above it?

2) what do i need to do to see the properties of the documents that
properties are grayed out?

Thanks so much!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It sounds as if one of the documents has form fields; the other may just
have MacroButton fields. You can determine what is involved by pressing
Alt+F9 to view the field codes. The document that has form fields will be
protected for forms, which is why you can't access the Properties (or
anything else except the form fields). You should be able to Tab from one
form field to the next on that one.

 

[luv2bike2]

Suzanne,

Thank you very much!! the problem has been solved.
I pulled up the Forms tool bar and locked the form so that the properties
were grayed out and than i went back into the document and i was able to tab
from one form field to the next and the cursor was at the begining of box.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!

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Thank you,

It sounds as if one of the documents has form fields; the other may just
have MacroButton fields. You can determine what is involved by pressing
Alt+F9 to view the field codes. The document that has form fields will be
protected for forms, which is why you can't access the Properties (or
anything else except the form fields). You should be able to Tab from one
form field to the next on that one.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, glad you got that figured out even if I was a bit off the mark.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Suzanne,

Thank you very much!! the problem has been solved.
I pulled up the Forms tool bar and locked the form so that the properties
were grayed out and than i went back into the document and i was able to
tab
from one form field to the next and the cursor was at the begining of box.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!