Setting tab order in new document

[Sandi V]

I'm working on a document-based form and following the instructions at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/SetTabOrder.htm for setting the tab
order in a template.

(Basically, create a macro that jumps to a field, and then assign an On Exit
macro to each field to specify which field next gets the foclus.)

This works great in my template, but new documents created from the template
default back to Word's left to right behavior.

Does anybody have any idea what's going on? (The ONLY VBA used in this
template are the Edit, GoTo Bookmark macros), like so:

'3 - ALTERNATED DEBTOR NAME

Sub GoAltDebtorName()
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("txtAltDebtorName").Range.Fields(1).Result.Select
End Sub
Sub GoPropertyValue()
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("txtPropertyValue").Range.Fields(1).Result.Select
End Sub

Any help is appreciated! Thanks. I'm using Word 2003.

Sandi

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix]

Sandi,

I hope my email explained what I think the problem might be. See the post on
the 25th called 'ActiveDocument or ThisDocument' for more info.

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Cheers!
Gordon

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[Sandi V]

Thanks, yes. For posterity, here is code that works very well for correcting
the tab order problem in a .doc (doens't help my problem -- but if you can
get away with just creating a document rather than a template, it works well):

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=58