Creating Forms

[Brande]

I am creating a form in Microsoft Word 2000 that would be
filled out in Word and need help. I learned how to create
a form field and format it for text/numeric etc...
However, when the field is filled in, it causes the rest
of the line to expand out and carry on to the next line.
How can I set the form so that it when it is filled in, it
doesn't push that line out any further? Does this make
sense?

 

[Peter Hewett]

Hi Brande

Right click on your FormField and set its Maximum Length. You may have to
experiment with what's an acceptable maximum length as your going to get more
"iiiiiiiiii"'s in you Form Field than you would "wwwwwwwwww"'s.

You could also place the FormField in a table and lock the table cell to a
particular size. This does not limit the amount of text you can eneter into
the FormField but it does limit the amount of text displayed.

HTH + Cheers - Peter

 

[Dian Chapman, MVP, MOS]

Use a table to layout your form and just remove the border so it won't
LOOK like a table.

I have a Word forms training course available and give away the first
lesson free...which just happens to be on table layout ideas and
tricks. You can read that lesson through this link:
www.mousetrax.com/techcourses.html#samples (see the WAT online link).

Also, I have many free tutorials on forms, which will give you lots of
examples about how to best setup a form page and how to limit how
things move around. See this link:
www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html#autoforms.

Dian D. Chapman
Technical Consultant, Instructor
Microsoft MVP & MOS Expert Certified

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