Using Fields in Microsoft Word. Note also that a macro button prompt will print as ordinary. It is the field result). To avoid it being printed, you may want. Format => Font). Because of this, it is often easier to use a custom toolbar with. The toolbar will not print.
Macro. Button Fields can be used in Protected Forms. They are. often used in such forms as a replacement for hyperlinks. A simple example of macrobuttons can be found in the. This template/tutorial combines the powers of macros, autotext, and the. Macro. Button Fields where the Macro responds to the contents of the. It is possible to use one macro that responds to the contents of the.
Doing this with Private or Add. In. fields incorporated in Macro. Button fields is discussed in the. Macro. Buttons page on the MVP.
Tutorial on use of fields in Microsoft Word; one of the tutorials in the Microsoft Word Intermediate Users' Guide. Contains numerous links to other online resources.
FAQ site. The same technique can be used with just the display text. Macro. Button field. The macro is: Sub.
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Test. Macro. 2()Dim My. String As String 'Ignore first 2. Macro. Button Test. Macro. 2', and the spaces My. String = Mid$(Selection. Fields(1). Code, 2.
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Msg. Box My. String. End Sub. The field is: { Macro. Button Test. Macro. Click Here] }This can be used to construct a list of templates in the Workgroup. Templates folder as macrobuttons.
When you double- click (or single- click. A single macro decides which template to. That is, the following fields both call the same macro. Macrobutton Template. List. Load Releases\Release - blank}(Displays: Releases\Release- Blank){ Macrobutton Template. List. Load Log}(Displays: Log)The macro uses the display information to decide which template to. The macro is. Template.
List. Load()' Based on ideas from http: //word. FAQs/Tbls. Flds. Fms/Using. Macro. Button. htm' Macro written by Charles Kyle Kenyon' 2. October 2. 00. 2'Dim s. Template. Name As String.
Dim s. Templates. Path As String'' Get workgroup templates path's. Templates. Path =.
Options. Default. File. Path(wd. Workgroup. Templates. Path) & "\"'' Parse template name from Macrobutton. The selection is the entire field.)On Error Go. To Error. Handlers.
Template. Name = Mid$(Selection. Fields(1). Code, 3. Use to create a new document based on. Documents. Add Template: =s. Templates. Path &. Template. Name. Selection. Collapse. Exit Sub'End Sub.
Making Macro. Buttons respond to a single To me, double- clicking on a button is counter- intuitive. To make a macrobutton respond to a single click. VBA code has to be.
Options. Button. Field. Clicks = 1. This has to be run before the user tries to click on the button. It. can be in an Auto. Open or Auto. New macro in the template which contains. Auto. Exec macro in a global template. Explaining these gets beyond the scope of this article; see Template Basics.
Using Macro. Buttons to function as in protected forms. In a document that has been "protected" as a form in Word. You can use a. macrobutton for a hyperlink to an external document or web page (and even format it to look like a hyperlink) in a. It is more work than merely inserting a hyperlink, though. You can also use a macrobutton to link to an internal bookmark with. With your document not protected for forms, record a macro that opens the. Save the macro in your document (not in.
Normal. dot) when you record it. Use the Macro Editor (Alt+F1. At the end of the macro. End Sub") add the following line. Selection. Collapse. Where you want your hyperlink Press Ctrl+F9 to insert your field codes and.
Macro. Button My.Macro displaytext." where "My.Macro". is the name of your macro and "displaytext" is what you want the.See Syntax above)Press F9 to update your field. .
It should show your displaytext. Select your field and press Ctrl+Shift+S to get into the styles drop- down. Type "hyperlink" for the style name and press enter. When you protect your document your pseudo- hyperlink should work fine. Remember to set the Button. Field. Clicks to 1.
Also, the mouse pointer will not.If you would like some pre- written code for your hyperlink macrobutton, you. . Hyper. Jmp. zip. from the Visual Basic MVP site.For alternative coding, take a look at Using.
Hyperlinks in Protected Forms on the MVP site. They show how to use a single. When the target of the link is it doesn't work quite so well. It will jump to the field. If there is no field following your non- field. Note that fields inserted.
Forms toolbar automatically have a bookmark assigned. You can change. that bookmark in the field's properties.) Thanks to Marcy T. For more on protected forms, follow the links in my. Dian Chapman's excellent series of articles. Example of Macro. Button Field Use in Multiple Ways - The. Microsoft Fax Transmittal Template from Word 9.
Note the checked box by "For Review." Here is the same template. Field Codes (Alt+F9).
The prompts for user. Macro. Button fields not associated with any macro. A dummy. name of "No. Macro" is inserted but the purpose of the field is to.
The checkboxes in the form are Macro. Button. fields, not Form Checkboxes or Content Controls!
Both of these use. Macro. Button fields to select the entire field when. The display text for the checkbox fields is the. If there were an active macro named No. Macro (or nomacro) these. Macro. Button fields would call that macro!
The name of the macro called by the (unchecked). Urgent checkbox is "Check. It." The one called by the (checked) For. Review checkbox is "Uncheck. It." Look again at the form. All you see is the display text - .
See. Checkbox Add- In for. An image does not work well as a prompt in document. These are. the document and template formats for the Ribbon versions of Word. See. this post on the Microsoft Answers forum. The image is selected. If the image is deleted by the user and the user. Clicking or. double- clicking on the field will not run a macro.
If the same document is saved in . The screenshot. below is from a document in . Macro. Button Field.
Here is a screen shot of the same thing, except the. In the . doc format, clicking on the macrobutton. If the user types anything, the image is deleted, the field is. When in . docx format, the image.
No macro is run. If the image is deleted. Macro. Button field prompt! Here is another sample using a smaller image, in . Note the image moves in front of the text even though. If there is a macro, it will not. Shows what it looks like when the space after the.
F1. 1 (next. field) function key. When this is done, if there is a macro, it will. What happens in these instances when text is typed?
In Word 2. 00. 7 and later when you click on the image. Macro. Button Field prompt text. If the. field itself is selected or you click in the area following the. In this second instance, if. If the same fields are saved in a .
Word. 9. 7- 2. 00. Macro. Button Field Prompts compared to Content Controls. Macrobutton prompts and text content controls can.
Here is a screenshot. Content Control and a macrobutton field prompt. Both select the entire contents when you click in them. Unless. formatted to delete the content control when edited, the.
The macrobutton field. Additional on Macro. Button fields(this. MS. Word New Users FAQ). Search Usersguide to Microsoft Word using Google The Field.
The Go. To. Button field acts very much like the Macro. Button field. and has a similar structure. I'm not sure why it is an improvement. Hyperlink.{ Goto.
Button My. Bookmark Text }A double- click will take the user to the bookmark location. If. the bookmark contains something, it will be selected. The Go. To. Button field responds to the options.
Button. Field. Clicks. Macro. Button fields. Other references on this field seem to say it mimics pressing.
Ctrl+G to go to a place in the document. That is true only if. Here is a screenshot of the. Insert Field dialog. The Ctrl+G Go. To Command allows going to headings and page. Using the Field Using the STYLEREF Field to create. Are you trying to get dictionary style fields (Krofta - Lamb) listing.
If that is what you are trying for, the following will work: Put your last name field (or whatever it is you are trying to capture). The character style does not need to look any different from surrounding. In the header/footer use.
STYLEREF fields with an optional switch on the last one to tell it. STYLEREF. fields probably don't show up in the mailmerge toolbar. Insert => Field.. Links and References (left window) => STYLEREF. Options (button)Look in help for "dictionary- style headers."You can name the character style anything you want and it should be.
You are using the. Remember, this new. This is especially useful when you have something on the first page.