Re: Forms vs SpellCheck

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"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Text form fields should be in the protected part as well. That is what they
are there for.

No, you didn't miss anything as far as section breaks. You can't have half
of a line protected and the other half unprotected.
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Charles Kenyon

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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Jack_Feeman" <JackFeeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Charles,

I will retry the MVP suggestion. Maybe I missed something about separating
half a line with section breaks. (The form has a text form field followed
by
checkboxes on the same line. I wanted to place the check boxes in the
protected part but not the form fields.)

Thanks for the tip on text boxes vs form fields.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

The macro on the MVP website is _the way_ to do a spell check of a
protected
form. You should not use a text box in a form as a field holder. Convert
the
text box to a frame and see if that helps.


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Charles Kenyon

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Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Jack_Feeman" <JackFeeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have read the cited collaborated instruction "How toenable the
spellchecker
in a protected document and very much impressed with its thoroughness.
This
question is based on the document being a form with form fields and
text
on
the same line so the division of protected/unprotected areas by
continuous
page breaks is not the answer.

I tried to write a macro assigned to a button which when clicked would
(1)
unprotect the document, (2) spellcheck the entire document, and (3)
re-protect the document. I finally got it to work but the spell checker
didn't seem to catch spelling errors in text boxes in the form, so I
tried
to
spellcheck it with the normal menu bar (F7) control. I found that while
it
did work with text entered in the Text Form Field; it did not work with
text
in Text boxes.

(1) I concluded that if all user entries have to be speel-checked; text
form
fields have to be used in lieu of Text boxes. Is this Correct?
(2) Is my macro an easier way to spellcheck a Word Form in view of the
limitation sited in the first paragraph when using breaks to divide
areas
of
the form to protect/unprotect?

Thanks






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