Hi everyone I'm new to the forum and have a question i hope you can help me with.

I have a Word doc, it has a table with 5 Text Form Fields in it. What I want to do it have dd/mm in each box in a light Gray and when you click in the box to fill it in, the dd/mm disappears.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks

Hi Scott
There is proably a macro that can be written to do this which someone will hopefully advise. However in the short term you can use the "tip" box of the form field to display the date format in the status row at the bottom of the screen.
Tony

Thanks for your reply, I had a feeling it may be a job for macros. I have had a look for the 'tip' box but cant seem to find it, can you tell me where its located?

Thanks
Scott

Hi Scott
I may have misled you slightly (sorry). You can add help to a formfield in Word 2003. Follow the link below and it will explain how you do it.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...005230270.aspx

Good luck
Tony

Hi Scott,

You can add an 'own help' display to the formfield's properties, but that only displays on Word's status bar. Not especially noticeable. If you format the formfield as a date type and specify DD/MM formatting, the user will get an error message if they exit the formfield with anything else input. With that formatting, however, a 'DD/MM' default is not possible. It is possible if you format the field as a plain text field, but then you lose the ability to validate the data entry - unless you attach an 'on exit' macro to the formfield to do that work for you.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]