Add a text form field in your Word template to allow authors to add text that repeats elsewhere in the document. When you're done, click OK to close the dialog and return to the template. For now, keep that field blank, but enter a short, descriptive text string in the Bookmarks field at the bottom left of the dialog box (no spaces or punctuation allowed). The people using the template will enter the text they want to repeat in the "Default text" box. Click in the box to add short, descriptive text, such as "Enter send date." Double-click the box to open the Text Form Field Options dialog box. (It's the "ab" button on the far left of the toolbar.) Add a text form field to a Word 2003 document by clicking the "ab" button on the Forms toolbar.Ī gray box appears with five small circles side-by-side. Next, place the cursor where you want the repeating text to appear and choose the text form field button on the Forms toolbar. Make sure the Forms toolbar is visible by clicking View > Toolbars > Forms. In Word 2003, open the template you want to add the repeating text to. That's because Microsoft made it more difficult to access the text form field button in the more-recent versions of Word. It's actually easier to enter text once and have it repeat elsewhere in Word 2003 documents than it is to do the same thing in Word 20. Word form fields make it easy to repeat text The solution was to add a text form field to the first page of the letter that authors use to enter the letter's send date and then to place a cross-reference to the text field in the header of subsequent pages. While authors usually remember to change the date on the letter's first page, they almost always forget to make the same change to the date in the header of following pages. That's why we can't add a field to the letters that displays the current date. In addition, the letters are sometimes sent on dates other than the official "sent" date. Unfortunately, the letters are usually composed several days before they're sent, and the send date often shifts. One of the most-used templates in our collection is a multipage letter that shows the date on the top of the first page, just under the company logo, as well as in the header of subsequent pages. The templates allow us to ensure all the documents we send to clients and partners share a similar look and feel. When running the form wizard in Adobe something is amiss.The company I work for relies on Microsoft Word templates to create all sorts of documents, from one-page letters to reports several hundred pages long. There seems to be some sort of interaction between the automatic numbering in Word and the way it tags check boxes. So, back to the solution, it is possible to get the forms to convert correctly, but work with a page at a time and get the content in a table seems to work for me. I can then quickly run the form wizard, lock the document and republish it. Plus, for me, the document is for a client who needs to be able to make changes to the content and fix it as needed.
While I like OO, it is not always feasible. Since I want to keep the original Word doc as a template for future changes and it has all the original formatting I don't want to create a new doc in OpenOffice. I have a similar form in Word and it was converting check boxes to radio buttons. Since it sounds like it is already in Word, it seems the goal is to get a format in Word that works. in openoffice ruins the layout and Removing text boxes manually may be a good solution for small forms but not for 10-15 page documents. As Rombanks said in two different posts - Opening a word doc.
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