Using zero length text in form fields

[Alan Todd]

Hi Guys,

I'm doing some development to automate standard documents in MS Word and I'm
using form text fields. Some times the data is empty and I'd like the field
to print as zero length.

At the moment, it is always a minimum length, filled with spaces.

Do you know of a way to have these fields print as no characters at all?

Thanks...

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi alan,

I'm doing some development to automate standard documents in MS Word and I'm
using form text fields. Some times the data is empty and I'd like the field
to print as zero length.

At the moment, it is always a minimum length, filled with spaces.

Do you know of a way to have these fields print as no characters at all?

The only way I know of is to set the entire form field range's Text.Hidden
property to True, or to enter a single space and set the font size of the range
to something very small (I think it will accept .1?)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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