Re: Forms and continuous section breaks (dropdown & fill-ins)

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Hi Bob,

My basic problem is that I can't break in the middle of a line without
having a line break.

I'm trying to break in between the dropdown box and the replacement text
boxes, and if that means in the middle of the line, then I need to do that so
they both work properly.

Basically, if this idea won't work, I'm looking for another strategy to
accomplish this form letter request. It doesn't seem to be such a wild idea
to me and I'm hoping that someone would have run across it that can help.

Thanks for trying,

Michele

"CyberTaz" wrote:

I believe your only problem is that you are trying to insert the section
breaks at the *end* of a paragraph. The insertion point can't be moved to
the right of the marker, so the break is inserted *before* the marker,
forcing it down - you can't have a section break in the 'midst' of a line
(without breaking the line). Put your insertion point at the *beginning* of
the line where you want the break to occur - IOW, always think of secton
breaks as the *start* of a section, not as the *end* of one.

--
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"MJones" <MJones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm creating about 30 standard letters. Each letter will have some
dropdown
boxes and some sections where you click and replace text; I'll call these
the
'replacement text boxes'. The text that is replaced in the replacement
text
boxes is stuff like 'manager's title' or 'employee improvement you would
like
them to exhibit'. So users know what goes in the box, I've added these
helpful comments as default text in the Text Form Field Options window.

I've got it working with one aggrevation.

For the replacement text boxes, I do not protect/lock the sections. That
way, when users click in the boxes, the helpful comment text that's there,
is
replaced by the user's text. Good that works.

For the dropdown boxes, I need to protect/lock the sections so the boxes
will drop down. I'm using continuous section breaks around these boxes.
Good they work.

The aggrevation is that continuous section breaks force a new line after
them. This is a problem when I have both a dropdown box and a replacement
text box on the same line. Sometimes, there will be a return in the
middle
of the line unless I can be crafty enough to word the text so the break is
at
the end of a line.

Does anyone have any better approach to accomplish the same thing? I'm
using Word 2003, but my client that will be using the forms has Word 2002.

I'd really appreciate any ideas you may have. I'm not really a VB
programmer, and altough I understand a little of it, I was hoping not to
have
to go that direction.

Thank you,

Michele



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