Hi,


I made a form in Word 2007 and inserted several Plain text control boxes that can be typed in. My question.. if they decide to leave a line blank, is there any way to tell it NOT to print "click here to enter text" ? So that the line will be blank when printed and can be written in by hand later? I know they can just click on it and delete it, but I wondered if there was an easy way? Thank you.. Deb

Hi Deb,

About the only way to do that would be to use a macro to alter the unfilled controls' content to, say, a space character.

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Thanks Paul, I think I will just use the backspace button. Sounds alot easier. Deb

Hi Deb,

Actually, you should be able to achieve the same result via Find/Replace, where:
Find = Click here to enter text.
Replace = space(s) or alternative text (eg N/A).

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