Forms built in Word for the PC

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Richardmac - 14 Oct 2005 04:27 GMT

I have built a number of forms (containing text fields, check boxes an
drop downs) in various versions of Word for the PC. The forms ar
password protected. They have all worked perfectly in every version o
Word for the Mac, until very recently. The problems seem to occur whe
Microsoft's Service Pack II for Word/Office was installed into OS 10 o
10.2.

Some fields are refusing to allow data entry, or a message pops up "
valid time or date is required" in a field that does not require
date, or some check boxes refuse an entry. In other cases, a box whos
text entry is set to convert entries to uppercase, has the wor
"uppercase" appear in the box when you tab over to it.

Is there a known fix or work around

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Richardma
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John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] - 16 Oct 2005 04:33 GMT

This is a bug introduced by SP2 for Word 2004.

There is no known work-around yet.

Hopefully Geoff or Rebecca will be along soon to tell us whether they have
this one on the fix list for the next service pack.

Cheers

On 14/10/05 1:27 PM, in article Richardmac.1wvhmm@nomx.macosx.com,

> I have built a number of forms (containing text fields, check boxes and
> drop downs) in various versions of Word for the PC. The forms are
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>
> Is there a known fix or work around?

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Forms built in Word for the PC