[mso] Re: Word Forms ?

HA! I won't "yell at you"<g>...whatever works for you. I just personally
find forms to be a fantastic way to automate documents. And seeing that they
have given me a big boost in my career BECAUSE so many folks want, but don't
understand them...is more the bonus for me! <wink>
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Glenda Wells
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:37 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Word Forms ?

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.

/g


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim [mailto:n1jmm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:09 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Word Forms ?

I got some word documents created in form mode, data has been entered in the
form fields, now I would like to remove the form fields but retain the data.
Is there an easy way to do this short of re-typing all the data?

We have found that the data entered in the fields is almost impossible to
edit, cut & past doesn't work within the field, cut & paste the whole field
is what happens which is useless, so at this point we just want to remove
the fields and essentially change it from a FORM to just a document but not
loose the data that was in the fields.

Thanks
-Jim-


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