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Help! Can I, and if I can, how do I do it – require an entry into a text form box by a user.

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Hi,

Assume your form textbox is called “Text2”, and that there is a form textbox immediately before it called “Text1”- then set up this macro:

Sub ValidateText2
If Trim$(ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text2").Result) = "" Then
  MsgBox "must be entered"
  ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text1").Select
  SendKeys "{tab}"
End If
End Sub

then, double click on “Text1”, and select “ValidateText2” from the dropdown “Macro on exit”.

The reasons for selecting Text1 in the code, and then using SendKeys, is that if you Select Text2, when you finish the macro, it selects the next form field in sequence, rather than staying where you’ve told it.

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Thank you sooooo much – have a great day.

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