Forms

[JayLow]

I created a form in word. I clicked on the lock
to "protect" the document. My users can tab nicely from
text field to text field.

BUT - if they hit the enter key, instead of the tab key
the lines move down.

Is there any way to prevent this?

 

[Jay Freedman]

There are two ways to handle this. One is to make a table, set the table row
heights to Exact values so they can't expand, and put each form field in a
cell of the table. The user will still be able to type more text, including
paragraph marks, but none of the extra text will appear in the field. If
you're using macros to retrieve the field results, this is not acceptable;
but for printing only, it's ok.

The other solution is to do some macro programming in the form template to
change the behavior of the Enter key, so it works like the Tab key whenever
the cursor is inside a form field. That's described in detail at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=187985.