I have Googled and Help filed myself a document as hard as any Nooby can.

So.... I am going to attach my creation hoping you guys can tell me why after I enable Protection allowing the filling in forms fields makes it so it only takes text in the top portion of the form.

The rows under the top section will not keep a cursor.

Thanks!



Office 2007 Windows7 x64 Pro, Up to date.

Attached Files

Surveillance RPT Semi Final.docx (25.6 KB, 15 views)

Hi gapi,

Your document has a mixture of formfields and content controls. If you use formfields, the only way to get them to work is to apply forms protection to the document. The result of that is that anything in the proected Section that isn't a formfield or content control can't be accessed. The way to have formfields in a document that requires free editing in another part is to use Section breaks between the areas using formfields and the areas where editing is allowed, then leave the latter areas unprotected when applying the forms protection.

Unless you need to preserve compatability for users of Word 2003 and earlier, you're probably better off using content controls. With these, activating them doesn't require applying forms protection - all you need to do is exit the Design Mode. Conversely, if you need to preserve compatability for users of Word 2003 and earlier, you can't use content controls.

Note also that formfields and content controls were not designed to work together. Using them in the same document so can lead to inconsistent behaviour.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]