Protect your document for forms by clicking Protect Form
on the Forms
toolbar. Until you protect a document, users cannot type in a text box, select or clear a check box, or see a drop-down arrow to display the available items in a drop-down list.
I can't change my form fields.
on the Forms
toolbar. Then double-click the form field you want to change.The edge of my form is not printing.
The macros don't run when a user fills in my form on another computer.
Security Use caution when you are adding macros to your form. Macros may be designed in such a way that their use could pose a security risk. We recommend that you use macros from trusted sources only.
- On the Tools menu, click Templates and Add-Ins.
- Click Organizer, and then click the Macro Project Items tab.
- To copy items to or from a different template or file, click Close File to close the active document and its attached template or to close the Normal template. Then click Open File, and open the template or file you want.
- Click the items you want to copy in either list, and then click Copy.
Note You can only copy whole projects from template to template, so you may want to create a custom project that contains only the macros you want to copy to the new template.
I see {FORMTEXT}, {FORMCHECKBOX}, or {FORMDROPDOWN} instead of my form fields.
If this problem occurs only when you print, you can turn off the printing of field codes. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Print tab. Under Include with document, clear the Field codes check box.
I can't type any more text in the Type your own box when creating a custom Help message.
There are no macros in my Entry or Exit box.
Security Use caution when you are adding macros to your form. Macros may be designed in such a way that their use could pose a security risk. We recommend that you use macros from trusted sources only.
- On the Tools menu, click Templates and Add-Ins.
- Click Organizer, and then click the Macro Project Items tab.
- To copy items to or from a different template or file, click Close File to close the active document and its attached template or to close the Normal template. Then click Open File, and open the template or file you want.
- Click the items you want to copy in either list, and then click Copy.
Note You can only copy whole projects from template to template, so you may want to create a custom project that contains only the macros you want to copy to the new template.
The TAB key doesn't move the insertion point to the correct form field.
The size of my check box changes when I apply formatting.
The Microsoft ActiveX form control I want to add does not appear in the More Controls list.
If you click More Controls
on the Control Toolbox (View menu, Toolbars command, Control Toolbox subcommand) and don't see the control you want in the list, the control may not be registered. This may occur if you copied the ActiveX control (a file with an .ocx or .dll extension) from an installation disk or the network without using the Setup program that the control came with.
Security Use caution when you are adding ActiveX controls to your form. ActiveX controls may be designed in such a way that their use could pose a security risk. We recommend that you use controls from trusted sources only.
To register the control:
- On the Control Toolbox, click More Controls
.
- At the bottom of the list, click Register Custom Control.
- Select the control you want to register, and then click Open.
My form fields are cleared when I lock the form.
When you protect a form by using the Protect Document task pane (Tools menu, Protect Document command), information in form fields is automatically reset. This does not occur when you protect your document by using the Protect Form button on the Forms toolbar.
My form fields aren't cleared when I lock the form.
In some earlier versions of Microsoft Word, form fields were automatically cleared when you protected the form, whether you protected it by using the Protect Document dialog box (Tools menu, Protect Document command) or the Protect Form button on the Forms toolbar. In Microsoft Office Word 2003, form fields are left in their original state when you protect the form by using the Protect Form button.
I can't use certain commands with a document I'm reviewing or a form I'm filling out.
The author of the form or document might have protected it to allow only for comments or tracked changes, or to allow for no changes. Doing either makes some commands unavailable.
To access all Microsoft Word commands, click Unprotect Document on the Tools menu. If the author protected the document with a password, you must know the password before you can remove protection from the document.