I have an Access 2010 application, with SQL tables linked in. One table has a field for "details". It is NVARCHAR(MAX). On the Access form, I have the textbox control formatted as Rich Text. When I am on the form, and go into that control, the Text Formatting part of the Home ribbon doesn't become enabled like it should.
I have to type text into the control, select the text and right click. I will get that hover-formatting block, but the formatting buttons on the ribbon will also then work. Why isn't the ribbon getting enabled when I go into the control, automatically?
Has anyone else experienced this? I did a fair amount of searching and googling, but haven't seen this issue reported by other people, so wasn't sure if I was missing something.
Thanks!
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I have a MS Word document that implements a form people can fill in. It is mostly just table cells that represent text fields people can type in and checkbox controls that allow them to check the box to select an option. I then save the document as a PDF document.
When I test the PDF form by selecting the "fill and sign" option, I've found that some checkboxes are "checkable", but others are not. They were all added to the form the same way, so I'm at a loss as to why some work and others do not.
I've looked at the properties of the control, but am not seeing anything different from a working checkbox vs a non-working checkbox.
Has anyone run into this? Any ideas on what could be wrong? Is there a MS forum that might be a better place for this question?
Hopefully a quick one
I am creating a form in Word with a Save macro that uses an ActiveX Label as a button. The label works fine as a button but I am having 2 issues:
when using the document in normal mode, the coding text in curly brackets for the label is still visible - see image
How do I get rid of this?
When printing the form, the button pushes the header text down a line:
You can see in the first picture that there is no gap here.
Thanks for your help.
(1) Press Alt+F9 to toggle off display of field codes (and make sure you're not in Design Mode).
(2) is impossible to be sure without having the document in front of me but...
Printing problems are notorious with ActiveX controls, which were designed for use with UserForms, not for the document surface. Your best bet for stability would be to use a one-row, two-column table with the button on the left and the address on the right.
Or use a MacroButton field code instead of an ActiveX control.
I wondering if its possible to use Microsoft Word as a text editor in a VB.Net project?
My project currently uses a Rich Text Box to allow the user to right a report which is then saved and a report generated. I was wondering if i could switch to Word for better formatting and layout options, be it embedded in the actual form or in another form thats called (if that makes it easier to assign the control).
I have worked on opening Word itself via a button click but would like to have it incorporated in the project. All users that would actually use the program would have one of the more recent versions of word installed.
Any pointers to websites would be great as i'm constantly searching but not getting very far
Thanks
I'm sure this question has an easy answer, but I have a short timeline and need to get it resolved ASAP.
I'd like to have a content control drop down that when the user makes a selection, will update a legacy text box formField with the selected value.
I have no trouble selecting form fields and setting them using VBA code:
ActiveDocument.FormFields("MyFieldName").Result
But I'm having trouble selecting the value from the content control, and also figuring out how to execute the macro "onExit" like I can with legacy fields / drop downs.
Any suggestions?
Google "vba content control events".
For example, see the last post by Greg Maxey at how-to-catch-custom-control-events-with-vba-macro and towards the bottom of his page http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/content_controls.html
I am in the process of creating a VBA add-in for Excel 2010, and I used the "Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office" tool to create my own ribbon.
However, I would like to give the user the option to load my add-in without displaying the ribbon, or with different parts of the ribbon visible.
With menus, I know you can completely control them programmatically, but ribbons seem to work differently.
Is there a way in VBA to not load my customUI.xml ribbon tabs on startup?
Is there a way to remove items from (or add items to) these tabs at runtime?
here is a whole slew of help on this subject Awesome Ribbon Help. I think points 2 and 3 are of particular interest to you.