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questionaboutword
Mar 09, 2023Copper Contributor
Cannot delete text in legacy tools form field
I'm having issues deleting and selecting legacy form fields in ALL my world documents. I have several documents with legacy tools form fields to enter text. I then protect the document so only t...
questionaboutword
Mar 10, 2023Copper Contributor
Thank you everyone for your replies. I do not know how, but the error corrected itself as quickly as it came on. When this issue first started I had used this document over 20 times. Each time just writing over the original text in the form fields with new text and then saving. Between saves, the issue started. After hours of using this form with the error, it just went away between saves. I was having some lag issues with my laptop touch pad during that same period, so wonder if it had anything to do with that. Thanks everyone!
- Mar 10, 2023
questionaboutword Glad to hear that. However, I would strongly recommend that you save the form as template and use File>New and select the template each time that you need to create a new form as then you will not have to remove\replace text from the formfields.