[mso] Re: Word Forms ?

Thanks Glenda, Linda, & Dian

The company provides word 2k on the network, and I doubt that they ever 
apply any updates/patches either (contracted through CSC).

Some of the fields may only get 3 to 20 characters entered in them which 
isn't a big deal, however most of the fields end up being more like 1/2 
to 2 pages long, and there could be 15 to 35 pages like this, way too 
much to be routinely retyping.

My only reason for using fields was I was under the impression that once 
a document was 'protected' that the fields were the only parts that 
could be altered, not the document layout. Am I mistaken here?

We send this out to internal customers to get their requirements, when 
we receive it back we typically unlock the document and it becomes our 
working document. Now that we've tried this for a few months we find 
that we are re-typing all the data from the fields into the document and 
then deleting the fields, this is very time consuming and since our 
users are not touch typist prone to mistakes. I/we were hoping to find a 
way to 'move' the data from the fields into the document itself and 
delete the fields.

For the future I think we will just send the customer an unlocked 
document with no fields, if they mess it up, they mess it up.

Meanwhile I'll check out Dian's article.
Thanks
-Jim-


Glenda Wells wrote:

>Hi Jim.
>
>I've experienced the same thing you have as far as the form fields go.
>Please don't get discouraged.  Forms are terrific and have many, many
>good uses.  On the other hand, the problems, depending on what you want
>to do are annoying.  To resolve your specific issue, what I've done in
>the past, is print the form as adobe then copy/cut/paste from the
>result.  This often saves formatting, tables, etc.
>
>(please don't yell at me diane) Personally, I wouldn't use a form field
>if the text is going to be very long.  Most of my forms have fields for
>things like name or address but if I have fields that require whole
>sentences or paragraphs, I tend to use tables. I put a button on forms
>that turn off protection after a person has filled in the form fields so
>they can move on to the table type fields.
>
>  
>

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