Protected Word Document Open Cursor Location

macropod · #1 10-13-2022, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by data808

I have a word document that is protected and is set on "No changes (Read only)" and so this causes the cursor to be in the top left of the document when I open the file. Is there a way to make it so that the cursor's focus is on a specific date picker in the document?

That behaviour is by design. indeed, all Word documents open that way. The only available workaround would be to use a macro to select another range upon the document being opened.

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Originally Posted by data808

I locked the structure of this document except for the date pickers, content control text boxes (plain text), etc... I had to do this because of content control checkboxes weren't very smooth when tabbing through the fillable areas of the document. I also tried legacy checkboxes with not much luck either so this No Changes (Read Only) has been working fine.

Please note that formfields and content controls should not be used in the same document. They weren't designed to be used that way and trying to do so is a known source of problems - especially when checkboxes are involved.

data808 · #2 10-13-2022, 04:15 PM

Thanks. Not sure what formfields are but I think all the controls I have in my document were selected from what shows on the ribbon at the top of the window and those items all seem to say content controls when I hover my mouse cursor over them. I read that legacy controls were inside the toolbox icon and I haven't used any of those. So pretty sure all of the text boxes and date pickers are from the content control section.

Would you be able to give me the VBA to select the date picker content control? I tried this on the open event of the document and it doesn't seem to work. Btw, I named the date picker title and tag "test":

ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlByTag (test)

Also tried:

ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlByTitle (test)

Not sure what I am doing wrong.

macropod · #3 10-13-2022, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by data808

Not sure what formfields are but I think all the controls I have in my document were selected from what shows on the ribbon at the top of the window and those items all seem to say content controls when I hover my mouse cursor over them.

I posted that comment because you said:

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I also tried legacy checkboxes

Those would have to be either formfields or ActiveX controls.

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