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Re: Complete Form for various data
Filling in Forms is the most restrictive method of editing restriction and eliminates spell checking in the text areas. No Changes with Exceptions will do what you want. The highlighting of the fillable text area is done by the user control over highlighting areas that can be filled in. You, the creator, cannot control this. You can have an onExit macro for your content controls that checks size of your document but this does complicate things and requires that you have a macro-enabled document, which many places will not allow to run. Validate Content Controls Entries Content Control Custom Events by Greg MaxeyRe: Avery Word Template – Text Boxes Not Linked, But Typing in One Moves Content in Others
This unwanted linking or duplication of text in textboxes has been reported recently as a bug. I believe it has been fixed in the latest release. Make sure Word is updated. Also, the "templates" from Avery are documents. Labels, in Word, are generally handled as tables. See label options in the Mailing tab. Look for the Avery number. Templates in Microsoft Word (https://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm)Re: In Microsoft Word headers, how do I enter content that differs on each page without section breaks?
Often, the StyleRef Field will solve this problem. But, it requires that the text be somewhere in the body of the page. Other than styleref and page numbering fields, fields in headers generally stay constant. You could have the dates as fields in the body of the document, perhaps even placed in Frames or TextBoxes to look like they are in the header. Date calculations and fields can be quite complex. See MVP Paul Edstein's Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial for sample fields to meet various requirements. Please read the introductory material before trying to use any of the fields from the tutorial. You may be able to copy a field from the tutorial and place it in your book. If in the header, your resulting field would need to be based, to some extent on the page field to get sequential numbering. Using a section break for each page will make your document a real headache to edit. Using Fields in Headers and Footers Header/Footer Settings RecapRe: Automatically update document styles
Check the box under Document Template under the Developer Tab to automatically update styles upon opening. This will overwrite style definitions for styles of the same name in the document. It will not change any styles in the document that do not exist in the template. Update Styles Options It must have the template other than Normal attached. This can be problematic if your template is not available. See What happens when I send my document to someone else? Will Word mess up my formatting? by Shauna Kelly, MVP. You could also consider using [Quick] Style Sets. These only cover styles which are in the [Quick] Styles Gallery. If the Style Set is updated, you would need to re-apply it under the Design tab. You can use these with your templates to make formatting in the various templates more uniform.Re: page numbering a document in word
You should be able to download the Mac desktop application Word. Much of the information for the Windows version applies to the Mac version, but many of the controls are a bit different. The web app simply does not have many of the controls you need for thorough control of page numbering and sections. The different programs called Word offered by Microsoft - a pdfRe: page numbering a document in word
See also: Page Numbers in Word 2007-2024 (365) Quick Reference Card for Headers, Footers and Page Numbers Header/Footer Settings Recap StyleRef Field and Using StyleRef Fields in Microsoft Word - a Tutorial in the Intermediate Users' Guide to Microsoft Word Each section, after the first, can have six different Link to Previous settings. They link to the comparable header/footer part in the previous section. Page numbers can be in one, some, or all, of these parts. All of the page numbers in a particular section will be controlled by the same settings in the Format Page Number dialog. Headers have been referred to as "running heads." The purpose of headers and footers is to put content in the marginal area of a page that gives information about the page, like the page number or topic. These are generally the same except for the changing information on multiple pages. People will often want somewhat different information on the right-hand and left-hand pages of books or papers. P.S. The links that Stefan gave you are excellent.Re: Index tab leaders don't reflect tab leaders in the Index Style
You might try changing the tab setting in the generated index paragraph and then updating the style to match. Can you perhaps save a pared-down copy of your document on OneDrive or DropBox and posting a link here? It should have at least the problem index and some of the index entries that go to create it. It would also help if you specified the version of Word/Office by name and release number and your operating system.Re: How to add 3 months to existing date mergefield in Word
This will not be simple, but it can be done. Download and open Paul Edstein's DateCalc tutorial. Microsoft Word Date Calculation Tutorial Be sure to read the introductory material. He has complex fields for different situations that you can copy and paste into your documents. Here you would use your initial mergefield as the starting point. Look at "Calculate a day, date, month and year, using n months delay." You can link directly to that field using the Table of Contents. This has been my go-to source for many years when I need such a field. Do not try to type or create the following; instead copy the real Word field from Paul's tutorial into your document and edit it there. {QUOTE {SET Delay 9} {SET mm{=MOD(ABS({DATE \@ M}+Delay+11),12)+1}} {SET yy{=INT({DATE \@ yyyy}+(Delay+{DATE \@ M}-1)/12)}} {SET dd{=IF(({DATE \@ d}>28)*(mm=2)=1,28+((MOD(yy,4)=0)+(MOD(yy,400)=0)-(MOD(yy,100)=0)),IF((mm=4)+(mm=6)+(mm=9)+(mm=11)+({DATE \@ d}>30)>1,30,{DATE \@ d}))}} "{dd}-{mm}-{yy}" \@ "dddd, d MMMM yyyy"} You would change the delay from 9 months to 3 months and use your mergefield instead of the DATE field everywhere the DATE field is shown above. See also: How to type Fields in Microsoft Word and How to Toggle the Display of Field Codes in Word (my page).
