Set up form with MSWord's table feature letting users tab through

[slycke]

I'm creating forms in MSWord for people who aren't word processors or even
programmers. They are used to tabbing through forms to get to the next place
to enter text; however, in Word tabbing creates a new table row. Is this a
toggle that I can turn off somewhere? Or what should I do? Thanks.
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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the following page of fellow MVP Dian Chapman's website:

http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html#autoforms


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[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You may not need to use macros. You will however need to protect the
document for forms for formfields to work.

There is no other way to prevent a row from being added to a table when the
user presses the tab key in the last cell of the last row of a table. At
least not without out using a macro.

It's about time the boss had a lesson in reality.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ordinary use of form fields doesn't require macros; it just requires
protecting the document for forms. There will be no macro warning.

 

[slycke]

Thanks! I was planning on delving into protecting forms this morning when I
got to work...hopefully it will solve the problem.

 

[slycke]

I protected one form (to use as a test document), but I'm still getting the
macro warning upon attempting to open the form. Also, I went through setting
macro security and adding a trusted developer (Microsoft doesn't seem to be
included in the list, although Visio seems to be) and couldn't add Microsoft
because I'll need a custom program (?) that doesn't seem to be included in
the software at work. I'll keep trying

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Be careful to use only form fields from the Forms toolbar, not ActiveX
controls from the Controls Toolbox.