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Legacy Tools in Word 2007 Question
I have a two maybe more part question. I am creating a form in Word 2007. And I have been messing around with the legacy tools. I am basically trying to make a "Comments" box on my form and have tried using the "text box" tool in legacy tools. what I need it to do is after I resize the box I need it so that when the person reaches the end of the box it won't allow them to tyoe any longer. Instead right now it will allow the user to keep typeing and what it will do depending on which tool I use is either the box will expand or it will alow the user to keep typing. but if you expand the box you will see what they kept typing. I tried going into the properties and change the max length, but depending on which words are type will determine where it will stop them from in the box sometimes there is alot of space left and sometimes they will type to much and it will go off into part of the box you can't see.
GrahamSkan
You could consider using a fixed-width font such as Courier New. That way you will be able to predict the size for any given number of characters.
I generally put my comments fields inside of table cells and make sure that the properties of the row are set for a specific height and set to Exactly. That way I know that the comment won't push additional text around, and I can control the number of characters allowed.
Dawn Crosier-Bleuel
Word MVP
Dawn Crosier-Bleuel
Word MVP
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Ok Dawn I see what your saying sort of I tried putting in a table row. Thing is after I protect the document you can't write in the table. I tried putting in a text box but what is the point of the table then? it still does the same thing. I mean take this comments box I'm writing in something like this maybe even with a scroll bar would help. I saw the scroll options in the Legacy tools but cant figure it out. Basically all I want is a text box that you can only write within the size that it is, is that possible?
You have opened another question for the same problem. Both are offering 500 points which would effectively contravene the 500 point maxim,um that is the site policy. I suggest that you delete the other question.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24279479/Creating-a-form-in-Word-2007.html
Have you tried my first suggestion (fixed-width font) with an Active_X text box?
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24279479/Creating-a-form-in-Word-2007.html
Have you tried my first suggestion (fixed-width font) with an Active_X text box?
Attached is a form I created with a comment box. I set the length of the box to 350 characters. I also adjusted the size of the cell to ensure that I would not push the remaining text around on the document.
Hopefully that helps you.
Dawn Crosier-Bleuel
Word MVP
Hopefully that helps you.
Dawn Crosier-Bleuel
Word MVP
Dawn,
You seem to have forgotten the attachment. :-)
You seem to have forgotten the attachment. :-)
Hi Graham -
I have a document all prepared, and I am not able to upload it. I've reported it to EE bugs to see if they can figure it out. I'll see if I can upload from a machine that does not have IE8 on it.
Dawn
I have a document all prepared, and I am not able to upload it. I've reported it to EE bugs to see if they can figure it out. I'll see if I can upload from a machine that does not have IE8 on it.
Dawn
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Thanks Dawn, that is AWESOME! not quite sure how you did it. but thanks. And yes I was pressed for time on this project so I thought I would re-make the same question to see if I'd get any other hits. I will make sure to delete one of them.
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Not only did she give suggestions she also created a document that had exactly what I needed