Protected Word Document Open Cursor Location

data808 · #1 10-13-2022, 06:09 PM

Thank you so much. I can't believe you need to add Dim statements just for something so simple. I worked with excel spreadsheets and usually its a lot more simple when it comes to selecting a cell.

In most cases yes, No Change (Read Only) wouldn't have a point to selecting anything but I had to go this route because of how the checkboxes work with tabbing. I am using the content control checkboxes and they do not work well when your document is locked and you want to tab through all the fillable areas of the document. So I selected No Change and made exceptions instead but then of course the document opens in read-only mode and has the cursor at the top left which makes sense but not for my situation.

Thank you so much for the help. Really appreciate it.

macropod · #2 10-13-2022, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by data808

Thank you so much. I can't believe you need to add Dim statements just for something so simple.

You don't:

Code:

Private Sub Document_Open()
ActiveDocument.SelectContentControlsByTitle("MyDate")(1).Range.Select
End Sub

data808 · #3 10-14-2022, 01:06 AM

This seems to be what I was looking for but @Guessed had a good point of trying to prevent unforeseen errors from occurring. Thank you for the help.

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