Formatting text in Word tables and forms

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Patrick Harris

In Excel, I can format text to display as a phone nbr. Is there a way to do
this in a Word text input field (form) inside a table?
 
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Cindy M -WordMVP-

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In Excel, I can format text to display as a phone nbr. Is there a way to do
this in a Word text input field (form) inside a table?
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Sorta. Depends to a certain extent on the version of Word (some don't support
custom formats as well as others). You can usually force it with a macro,
though.

Cindy Meister
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http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
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