I cannot find date picker on my form controls?

When I protect my form I can tab from on text box to the next but when I put in date picker it will only tab to that point.

Is there a way to keep tabbing to the next entry?

Hi Barbara,

There are three types of content control you can't tab out of in a document with forms protection: rich text & building block; and checkbox (checkbox content controls don't exist in Word 2007). You also can't tab into a checkbox. You can tab out of a date-picker, provided there's another content control after it; this applies to the others not already mentioned too. If, however, you use the 'no changes' protection and mark the content controls as exceptions, you can tab through all except rich text & building block. The rich text & building block controls behave differently because they can accept tab characters as inputs.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I am having trouble marking the controls as exceptions. I can't seem to select the areas I need. I have 8 text form fields to be filled out and one date picker. There is a text form field in front of the date picker and behind.

You shouldn't mix formfields and content controls in the same form. Since you're using a datepicker content control, you should use either plain text or rich text content controls instead of text formfields. With content controls, you also don't need to apply the forms restrictions applicable to formfields; rather you can use the editing restrictions, with the content controls marked as exceptions. You can't mark content controls as excptions if using forms protection.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks - I did not know I couldn't mix form fields.

You can, but doing so results in all sorts of compromises, including that once you've tabbed out of a formfield into a content control, you can't tab from there back into another formfield.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]