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1. #WHERE TO FIND FORM FIELDS IN WORD UPDATE#
2. #WHERE TO FIND FORM FIELDS IN WORD REGISTRATION#
3. #WHERE TO FIND FORM FIELDS IN WORD PLUS#

Place a checkmark beside Content control cannot be deleted.(Although we won’t go into it today, there are some applications where you don’t want any spaces in your form tags.) Enter Registration_Number in the Tag field of the Content Controls Properties dialog box.

#WHERE TO FIND FORM FIELDS IN WORD REGISTRATION#

#WHERE TO FIND FORM FIELDS IN WORD PLUS#

There are two more important things we need to do to each form field: give each one a name and title plus make sure that users cannot accidentally delete the form field. Unfortunately, creating forms is not a wham-bam type of business. Now repeat steps 1 – 3 in the next four table cells.Click the Rich Text Content Control in the Controls group.Click your mouse in the empty table cell beside Registration Number.Now that you’ve got the table open and the Developer tab selected, it’s pretty easy to add fields to hold your form content.Check out Turning on the Developer Tab in Word 2013 if you’re not familiar with that skill and the Developer Tab is not listed in the Ribbon. Today’s tip is also going to involve turning on the Developer Tab. You can download the file, or create it yourself following the previously published tip. Type in the 'Bookmark Name' field myBkMrk and.

Finally, click in the document immediately after the two text form fields that you entered, type a few spaces and then click Insert>Bookmark. If you use form fields frequently see my: Add Classic Form Controls. Finally, the "post-fiddle" is to restore the em-dashes that were in the captions, by doing a global replace of the string "EM-DASH" with the actual em-dash character "^+".We created a table in yesterday’s tip Creating a Simple Table in Word 2013 and we’ll be using that same document to create our form today. In Word 2007/2010 the form field controls are at Developer tab>Controls>Legacy Forms. Then you do the separator change as described above. "EM-DASH") that doesn't ever occur in any caption's text.

The "pre-fiddle" is to do a global find/replace across captions, replacing the em-dash ("^+") with some other string (e.g. If it does, then you'll need to do a pre- and post- "fiddle" to ensure these em-dashes are not touched by the global replace above.

NOTE: This presumes that em-dash does not appear in the caption text anywhere. Do a find/replace searching for special character "em-dash" (^+) in style CAPTION, replacing with " ". FIGURE), select the other labels one by one and repeat this process. If you have other labels in use in the document (e.g. This will replace all separators in captions for the selected label in the CAPTION Window. Go to REFERENCES | INSERT CAPTION, then click on NUMBERING and replace the SEPARATOR "." with "EM-DASH". To globally replace the separator "." with " " (space) in such captions, take two steps: This means these captions will have been (automatically) created in CAPTION style. It sounds like Beth may have created captions throughout the document using INSERT CAPTION (hence the presence of field codes). And this may not be quite what Beth was looking for.

#WHERE TO FIND FORM FIELDS IN WORD UPDATE#

Update the field codes.Ĭoming in late on this, probably way too late for Beth (sorry Beth). Select-All and re-toggle the field codes. Add any further custom processing to the macro VBA. It's usually better to go the macro route when finding fields because, as you say, the find algorithm that Word uses doesn't work the way you might hope with fields.īut if you know exactly what the fields contain, you can specify a search pattern that will probably work (however not in wildcard mode).įor example, if you want to look for figure number field pairs such as brackets.