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Subject:Growing tables in protected form From:thewriteguy -at- thewritespot -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 4 May 2006 16:31:34 -0500 (CDT)
Most of my energy the last five years has been Web-related, and my Word
skills aren't what they used to be.
Is there a way in Word to allow a user to add rows to a table in a
protected form?
A client has a form with tables that tend to grow tremendously sometimes
in the number of rows of details required of the submitter.
When they discovered the static protected form was inadequate - that
they couldn't put in enough table rows to cover every situation without
having people create pages of empty table rows - they simply decided to
unprotect the form and send it out as a Word doc.
They handle checkboxes by teaching end-users to right-click and choose
"checked" in the properties window.
In two years, they really haven't had a problem with people breaking
unprotected form. The ability of the end-user to grow the tables at will
is more important than the convenience of tabbing through a protected
form.
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