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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / May 2006Word confuses Form and ActiveX Controls?
I have designed a form in Word 2002 using the Control Toolbox. I save it as a normal document (not a template). The problem is that occassionally when I open the document, I get an error: "Can't exit design mode because Control [Some Control Name] can not be created." The Control Toolbar is then visible with the design button depressed. When I click on the control in question, the status line says, "Double-click to edit Microsoft Forms 2.0 [Some Control Type]." The odd thing is that if I keep clicking different controls, eventually the message in the Status Box disappears. If I close and open the document several times, eventually the document will open without error. I'm guessing that Word is treating the control in question as a Microsoft Forms control and not an ActiveX control. In other words, as the type of control you add with the Forms Toolbar and not the Control Toolbar. If that is correct, how do you keep Word from confusing the two types of controls? I don't want the end-user to see the error message and Control Toolbar when he or she opens the file. ---Jared L Jared L was telling us: Jared L nous racontait que : > I have designed a form in Word 2002 using the Control Toolbox. I > save it as a normal document (not a template). The problem is that [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > confusing the two types of controls? I don't want the end-user to see > the error message and Control Toolbar when he or she opens the file. I think you will find that most people do not really use ActiveX controls in Word because they are flaky and cause all kind of trouble. I believe they are more reliable in Excel, at least, in Excel I have never had any problem with them. Not so in Word. Also, in later versions, there are anti-virus and/or registration issues that complicate their use. So, if it is a "Fill the form" type of document, you can do it with the form toolbar, you do not need ActiveX. If I am in a situation where I need a more complex UI, I use a UserForm. What is it you are doing with ActiveX controls that you cannot do with a formfield?  SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org I place ActiveX buttons on the document that the user can press to run vba code. I like the ActiveX combo boxes which allow the user to either select one of the given choices or type in their own choice. The ActiveX radio buttons allow mutually-exclusive choices without extra programming or having to place related ones in a single frame. I like having the controls on the document rather than in a user form. That allows the user to work at his or her leisure and/or save the data for partially completed forms. If there is no solution to my problem, I may try to combine form toolbar controls with ActiveX controls. Maybe reducing the amount of ActiveX controls may make the problem go away. ---Jared > I think you will find that most people do not really use ActiveX controls > in Word because they are flaky and cause all kind of trouble. I believe [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > What is it you are doing with ActiveX controls that you cannot do with a > formfield? Hi Jared, Forms 2.0 controls are ActiveX controls; they're the same controls as in the Control Toolbox. So the message is essentially telling you the ActiveX control can't be created in the document. In your second message you indicate that you've put quite a number of these in a document, and that the solution may be to substitute "forms" controls for some of them. I think this is an approach that could work. An ActiveX control requires relatively quite a lot of resources (memory). Similar to an embedded Powerpoint slide or Excel sheet, it needs to embed and instantiate itself as the document is opened. If there are a lot of them, there may simply not be enough available resources when the document is opened the first time. The more you "play with it", the more resources Word can accumulate, so that eventually it works. > I have designed a form in Word 2002 using the Control Toolbox. I save it as > a normal document (not a template). The problem is that occassionally when [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I don't want the end-user to see the error message and Control Toolbar when > he or she opens the file. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Hi, Cindy, Your explanation makes sense. I will try substituting much of the ActiveX controls with "form" controls. Thanks. ---Jared L. > Hi Jared, > [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] > reply > in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
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