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Old 03-04-2009, 03:27 PM
Rath Rath is offline using word/able to fill blanks w/o moving rest Windows Vista using word/able to fill blanks w/o moving rest Office 2007
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Hi,
Newbie here.

Is it possibe to set up a document and be able to just tab and go to the next entry w/o moving everything around and then having to re- adjust?
Not a good way to explain my problem!
This may help?

Name:_____with or w/o lines__________ Address:_______________ _________________
(I don't want to lines to move)
I just want to use the tab and fill in the information blanks and the document doesn't change?
I don't know if there is any clarity here??
You may also contact me w/ my email address.

Thanks
Rath
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Old 03-06-2009, 01:23 AM
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Hello Rath,

I don't know if this is quite what you need but it may be useful to try.

If you use a simple table, to populate your data, you can set the column witdths to fixed values. This will still allow you to "Tab" between cells.

I have made a brief example as shown in the attachment.

I hope this helps but please feel free to ask if any of this is unclear.

Kind regards,

"Zade"
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Old 03-06-2009, 07:16 AM
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HI Zade,
Thank you for the response.
This would definetly work for developing a new document.
However, there are documents that I scan that have areas that are to be filled in.
Therein the problem exisits. I am unable to permanently set these fill-in blanks and accomplish the same effect.
if it were a case of small documents with a few fill-ins, it would be possible to follow your advise. But many are long documents with many fill-ins.

Thank you,

Rath
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Old 03-07-2009, 08:46 AM
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Hi Rath,

I'm not sure but I think in order to use the Tab key to navigate, you have to use a table otherwise any existing text will become displaced. Also, since you are scanning some of your documents, it may be that you need to adapt them slightly to accept your text entries.

Perhaps they could be "converted" to a suitable format by using macros. I guess that in essence this would involve some sort of Find & Replace. If you could possibly send me one of your scanned forms as an example, I may have a better understanding.

Kind regards,

Zade :-)
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