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What is a text field
Can someone tell me what a text field is in Word? I've been getting mesages from my employer saying that my documents have text fields in them, when all I did was use the template that was given me. I don't know what they are and/or how to get rid of them. |
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Without seeing the document, I can't comment on what your employer might be calling a text field. There are multiple possibilities, many of which have nothing to do with Word nomenclature.
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Neither can I -- i was using libreoffice, with a template that they sent me. I tried to open the document that had the problem in Libreoffice, but I couldn't do it. I got some kind of an error message about the encryption not being able to be used in os X (I was writing the doc in OS X, because my word 2003 doesnt allow me to change colors for the document, only white text on blue background, and I can get other colors that don't hurt my eyes with libreoffice.)
Anyway what she told me that on a certain page she would click in the document and the rest of the doc would be highlighted. She called that a text field, but i'm not sure what she means by that. I didn't do anything to the template that was given me. So i'm not sure if there's a problem with Libreoffice, Libreoffice for mac, or what. I did download libreoffice for windows. But I haven't sent any files made from that yet. |
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With documents converted from another program, there are even more possibilities. Do upload an example document which we can have a look at.
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If your employer expects you to handle Word documents, then it is not unreasonable for the employer to provide you with the means to do so. Libre Office is quite good, but Word it is not.
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Given the OP's declaration that all he did was edit a Word document with LibreOffice, I can't see how that's relevant to the document now having text fields. I also can't see how Word 2007 is suddenly considered relevant, as it hasn't been mentioned anywhere else and, in any event, the OP was using LibreOffice on a Mac.
One possibility is that the document supplied by the employer contains content controls but no word processor I know of supports them on a Mac; neither does any PC Word version before Word 2007. Together that rules out everything the OP apparently has access to. Or maybe they're ActiveX controls, once again not supported by any word processor on Macs.
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