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By selecting the para marks before and after the line and setting borders to none, the line will go away.

Iansavell

I don’t know if this is a quick and easy way to save everything back. I work in numbered levels often and if I press tab and the number/level doesn’t advance (and just puts in a tab), I know it some how quit working. Because of that, I added “AutoFormat as You Type” (from All Commands) to my QAT. It’s one click to access to change rather than going through Word Options>Proofing, etc.

If your tab and shift tab aren’t working, go to Word Options>Proofing>AutoCorrect Options>Format as you Type and select (at the bottom) Set left- and first-indent with tabs and backspaces.

On the menu bar, go to View and deselect Thumbnails

Gary, thanks for looking at this.

I did add the ActiveDocument.Fields.Update code to one of the templates that is protected. (Most of the protected templates are set up in the same way (with the same type of userform) but it is set to protect the document after clicking ok.) It seemed to work on the one I added it to but I’ve got to try again a few more times just to make sure before adding it to all of them. Where I have added it is just between the ExitSub and EndSub.

As far as the way the templates are set up, that was how I was instructed years ago to set them up, when we switched from Word Perfect to Word and to be honest, they have worked well for how we use them. There have been times when a user will select the form field and wipe out the text, but by either instructing them on how to change it in the future (double-clicking and editing there) or me dropping in the new field, we haven’t seen too many problems with them. If you’d like to expand further on just using bookmarks, I’d like to hear about it but would that start with the userform as it does now?

As far as the code you posted, could you tell me where I’d put that? If I remember right, the fields would update when the document was printed but most users want to see the text immediately when the document is on screen.

I’m going to try attaching a stripped down file to maybe show better how the template is set up.

To expand further, you say if text is assigned to a formfield , in unprotected doc., the text will replace it. For each spot on the userform, where user fills in with text, that cell is assigned the same bookmark name. When document populates, it populates correctly and always (versions 97-2003) filled in correctly. It’s in Word 2007 where it’s not repeating.

The text formfields are on the first page (or first occurrence) and the bookmark is set in the field settings box. After that first occurrence, all the fields are ref fields.

Thanks much.

Thanks Hans – those are the two I looked at. I hope this file is sufficient as I stripped out a lot of rows.

I figured it had something to do with all the patches that were coming out but I didn’t think MS would actually put something out that screwed up things so badly. Thanks for the info. I, too, would just modify the normal style and fix the problem, but try to explain to that to users whose documents just went haywire.

I have seen the same problem in the last month or so also. Nothing is checked that shouldn’t be, compatibility is the same, etc. It didn’t happen to me, but happened to different users in different offices on different documents based on different templates. Nobody has let me know in the last couple of weeks if it is still a problem and I couldn’t get it to reproduce on my machine.

Someone did post the same question on the MS board, but as of yet, nobody has responded, so at least I’m not the only one who’s seen it happen.

Thanks Hans, works perfectly.

I’m not sure how the person got all macros in the doc. I was able to do it, but it was a time-consuming mess with many steps involved, and can’t imagine anyone doing it. I was also able to copy the macros through the organizer from the template to the document and I’m leaning more toward the latter that this is how it happened.

Anyhow, thanks much – I can move along more swiftly now.

Each of the paragraph markers has the line set as a border. If you select the para markers, set borders/shading to none, even though it may already show there are none.

I’ll take a look.