text boxes

[Alan]

I have scanned a work sheet that i would normally hand write in, and put it
on publisher, added text boxes so that i can now fill these work sheets
out
on my computer and print, however how can i hide the text boxes and go
from
one text box to the other using my tab key?

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can't use tab this way in Publisher.

You can link all the text boxes and use ctrl+shift+enter to go from box to box.
You only have to do this once. The next time you will automatically go to the
next text box by clicking the overflow icon.

You could put the worksheet on the Master Page and create the text boxes on the
publication page.

If you don't want to see the text box boundaries turn them off in the View menu.

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Print it to a PDF creator capable creating a fillable-form out of your
Publisher design.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I don't think you can create a fillable form from a scanned image. I could be
wrong. But you do need Acrobat.

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

I think you can...oh wait...sure you can! I take forms from city websites
(permit applications - things like that) and make them fillable when the
cities don't.

I use Acrobat Pro, dunno if others can or not.

I made a few from Publisher documents...invoices...for a buddy that doesn't
have an accounting system yet - he wanted a pretty invoice that he could
fill in and save/print

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Alan]

thanks for your reply, how do you do that?
--
Alan

I think you can...oh wait...sure you can! I take forms from city websites
(permit applications - things like that) and make them fillable when the
cities don't.

I use Acrobat Pro, dunno if others can or not.

I made a few from Publisher documents...invoices...for a buddy that doesn't
have an accounting system yet - he wanted a pretty invoice that he could
fill in and save/print

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

With Acrobat Pro (not the free reader) or any free PDF creator capable of
creating Forms:

Open your Publisher document in Publisher
Print
Select Adobe PDF or the appropriate PDF creator print driver and print to
that
Save it
Now, open that saved PDF in Acrobat Pro (or pdf creator capable of creating
forms) and create the fields your require) and you save it again or with a
different name. If you name a field with the same name, like Address1,
anyplace you have another field named Address1 when you enter data in one of
those fields the info is duplicated in ALL fields with the same name...very
cool and saves a lot of time (like with boilerplate contracts).


You'll have to check around if anyone here knows if the popular free pdf
creators can create forms...I dunno cause I use Acrobat.


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression