Tab creates another cell

[Dave]

When I press Tab to move from one cell to the other it
works fine... great. BUT, when I get to the last cell in
the table and press tab, it creates another row/cell. Is
this normal? If so, can it be changed? I want the
cursor to move outside of the table after pressing tab.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

That is normal behaviour. You can't have it both ways.

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[Guest]

OK, that answers my question. Thank you. But this
brings up another question. When "tabbing" from one cell
to another, can I exclude text that is already in the
cell so that the cursor appears on the line below this
text? Here's what I mean; Our (Dept. of Justice) memo
template includes several cells. These cells have text
within them (Date, Subject, file number, etc.), but when
I tab from one cell to the next, that text is selected,
therefore; a user could inadvertently type over this
text. Our users, being mostly lawyers, are, to say the
least, picky about these types of "problems".

Any ideas??

Thanks again.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

The best way to do this is the put a userform in the template into which the
users enter the Date, Subject, File Number, etc and then click on a button
and that will transfer the information into the resective places in the
document created from the template and can then position the cursor at the
spot at which they can start entering the text for the memo.

See the article “How to create a Userform” at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm

A less desireable way is to use formfields for the Date, Subject, File
Number etc and insert a continuous section break after the table and then
protect the section containing the table for forms. The disadvantage of
this method however is that it disables some of Word's capabilities. The
spell checking for example, but that can be got around by using the method
in the article “How to enable the spellchecker in a protected document” at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm

While I would very strongly recommend that you go with the userform
approach, for more on the use of formfields, see

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