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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / January 2007Prevent Carriage Return in a Form Field - Protected Document
I'm looking for a way to prevent user's from breaking a template form which I created by hitting the enter Key in a Form Field. I know about this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q187985#appliesto Which works great but requires macro's. I also know about inserting the form fields into a table which I have done in other area's of form. Are there any other methods that would get around this situation? I have all form fields hard coded with a number of characters, but it doesn't matter if they can just hit enter. Thanks for any and all help!! The file I'm working on is found here: http://jkfweb.com/files/Sale - Return RFC.dot Joshua You've already tried the only methods that are available. What about them is not sufficient?  SignatureRegards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I'm looking for a way to prevent user's from breaking a template form > which I created by hitting the enter Key in a Form Field. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Joshua > You've already tried the only methods that are available. What about them is > not sufficient? Trying to avoid adding macro's to a template, because the person who asked me to create form didn't want macro's. I have trouble applying all the formatting I would like in Tables. >> You've already tried the only methods that are available. What about them is >> not sufficient? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >I have trouble applying all the formatting I would like in Tables. The fear of macros in templates is irrational and severely limits the ways you can customize Word. (Macros in documents, if you don't know where the document originated and what the macros do, are to be avoided.) In this case, the macros in the Microsoft article are the only reasonable solution. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >>> You've already tried the only methods that are available. What about them is >>> not sufficient? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > newsgroup so all may benefit. Thanks :) I was afraid of that. Believe me I understand what your saying but when one of the VP's at your company tells you he would rather not have macro's in it then, who am I to argue with him. >>>> You've already tried the only methods that are available. What about them is >>>> not sufficient? [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >one of the VP's at your company tells you he would rather not have >macro's in it then, who am I to argue with him. If the form is important enough, you tell him that he's impairing his company's competitiveness against companies that use their resources instead of arbitrarily ruling them out. Otherwise, you shrug and go on to the next assignment. :-) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. I would disagree with Mr. Freedman's comments. The role of the IT Department is to support the current business; and in the world of IT the first business rule is that given enough time and money anything is possible. If this is important to the company then you present them with a possible cost. It is their decision whether they want to invest the company's resources for this project. If you have a table that you do not want the integrity of the format to change here is a simple solution: make sure that the row height where the field exist is set to "Exactly" -Unprotect the form -Select the row you want. -From the Table menu, choose Table Properties -Click on the row tab and set the height of the row based on the number of carriage return you want to limit that field to. -Set the Row height to Exactly -Protect the form The user can hit the Carriage Return as many times as he wants but the form template will not break. A solution with no marcos. DM > >>>> You've already tried the only methods that are available. What about them is > >>>> not sufficient? [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > newsgroup so all may benefit.
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