Using Macros In Forms

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rickbrownaz - 21 Mar 2007 00:40 GMT

I am trying to create a macro that will permit use of the ENTER key to
navigate between form fields created in MS Word 2003 instead of the detault
TAB key. I have followed KB articles 212536 and 211219, but nothing seems to
work.

Is there an easier way or am I just missing something?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 21 Mar 2007 14:15 GMT

I believe the information in 211219 is essentially the same as that at:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q187985/

which was for Word 97, but I have used in in later versions.

I suspect that there is something not quite right with what you have done.

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>I am trying to create a macro that will permit use of the ENTER key to
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rickbrownaz - 28 Mar 2007 01:00 GMT

It seems to work ok on my computer now, but when I save it and e-mail it to a
user it doesn't. I have the macro assigned to the document not the
normal.dot. Is there something else I'm missing?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 28 Mar 2007 16:00 GMT

Quite likely the user has their Macro Security Level set to High in which
case the macros will just be dumped from the doucment without their being
advised. If they set the Level to Medium, they will be given the choice of
allowing or disallowing the macros. You will have to convince them that the
macros are safe.

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> to a
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rickbrownaz - 30 Mar 2007 05:58 GMT

Doug--

That was one of the first things I checked and it was set to high security.
When I lowered it ithe user did receive the prompt to allow macros, but
pressing the enter key continued to enter lines instead of navigating between
input fields.

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Rob - 21 Mar 2007 14:33 GMT

This is kind of hackish but it does what you want.

Private Sub Document_New()
CustomizationContext = ActiveDocument
KeyBindings.Add KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(wdKeyReturn), KeyCategory:= _
wdKeyCategoryMacro, Command:="SendTab"
End Sub

Sub SendTab()
SendKeys "{TAB}"
End Sub

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