Hi all,

I've been working on a referral form at my workplace and have run into some difficulty.

I've attached an example, **I haven't used a password, so can be protected/unprotected**


So the text fields are great to a point, when users fill the form in I'd rather the boxes didn't expand. So I included Text Form Fields and limited the characters.



As a schoolboy error I probably used the wrong letter to test the limit as the letter "m" is the widest so that fits the boxes perfectly. However a narrower letter "i" makes it come up short in the space you can type.

Should i have tested the character limit on "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Is filling in forms protection the right way to go about this?

Thank you and Merry christmas/happy holidays


WORD2010


Ben

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"Filling in forms" protection is useful when creating forms. What you should do is specify fixed dimensions for the table cells. That way, the table layout will be preserved.

If you want to control the width of text characters, use a monospaced font such as Courier New.

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