Tab directly to fill in

J

Jax

I have a form set up, but now I need to have grey boxes only - no "Click
here" or words of any type in the fill in areas. Also, when the user tabs,
we need it to skip the question and tab to the fill in areas only. Possible?
 
J

Jay Freedman

Jax said:
I have a form set up, but now I need to have grey boxes only - no
"Click here" or words of any type in the fill in areas. Also, when
the user tabs, we need it to skip the question and tab to the fill in
areas only. Possible?

Use form fields, and protect the document for forms, as described in
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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all may benefit.
 
J

Jax

Jay Freedman said:
Use form fields, and protect the document for forms, as described in
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=22.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.


THis link does not help me get rid of the "Click Here" in the grey boxes. I figured out how to tab to each box directly, but cannot get rid of the words in the boxes.
 
J

Jay Freedman

THis link does not help me get rid of the "Click Here" in the grey boxes. I figured out how to tab to each box directly, but cannot get rid of the words in the boxes.

I have some questions that must be answered before I can even begin to
guess what you're looking at.

1. What version of Word are you using?

2. What are the "grey boxes"? If you press Alt+F9, do they change to
field codes (text contained in bold curly brackets)? If so, what is
the text of the field codes?

3. How did you create the form, step by step?

The reason I ask these things is that form fields, as described in the
article I mentioned before, don't have any text in them by default. If
there is any "Click here" text, you must have put it there by filling
in the "Default text" box in the field's Properties dialog. Assuming
you didn't do that, then the grey boxes must not be form fields.

If you're using Word 2007, they could be content controls, which do
have default text, but they aren't what I'd call grey boxes.

Please relieve my confusion, so that I can help you.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

They could well be MacroButton NoMacro fields, with "Click here..." as the
prompt.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
J

Jay Freedman

That occurred to me, but I can't see how the OP could "set up" the
form that way and not know it.
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

I'm not sure "I have a form set up" necessarily means that the OP set it up,
though.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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