Forms

[Tommy Peterson]

I am inserting a form into my document. I have the
document locked so a user can't make changes. HOwever, the
arrow on the drop-down box will not show up unless a user
clicks on that form? How can I get the down arrow beside
every drop-down menu to show up as soon as the user opens
the doc?

Also, how can I get default text to disappear when a user
clicks on that text form field?

Thanks!
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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Tommy,

I'm having some difficulty reconciling all the terminology
you're using. And I also don't see what your questions have
to do with VBA programming. But let's see...

I am inserting a form into my document. I have the
document locked so a user can't make changes. HOwever, the
arrow on the drop-down box will not show up unless a user
clicks on that form? How can I get the down arrow beside
every drop-down menu to show up as soon as the user opens
the doc?

Word formfield dropdowns won't show the arrow unless the
focus is in the field. There's no way to change this.
Conceivably, you could use an ActiveX control from the
Control Toolbox toolbar, but then you'd need to use VBA (a
macro) to fill the list.

If your concern is that the user needs to see that the form
field should be filled out, activate the "field shading"
button on the forms toolbar (the one with the "a" on it).

Also, how can I get default text to disappear when a user
clicks on that text form field?

Best you could do would be a macro assigned to the "ENTER"
event that would delete the text in the field. Note, however,
that this wouldn't work reliably with Word 97. Which version
of Word would people be using?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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