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Creating MS Word Forms for Websites
A Microsoft Word form helps you reserve a block of text on documents and templates. You can add a text form field, checkbox or drop-down list to your form to gather the information you need from users. You'll see a gray shaded area or form characters representing the form field in your document, which can be updated. By adding a hyperlink to your form field, you can direct people to an email address, website, another document or different area on your document when they click on it. You'll need to create a macro for the hyperlink to work properly.
Instructions
- Open the Microsoft Word document to which you will add the form.
- Create a macro for your hyperlink before creating your form by clicking on the "Tools" menu. Choose "Macro" and then "Visual Basic Editor." This will allow users to open your hyperlink after your form is protected.
- Click on the "Insert" menu
and choose "Module" for a new page. Copy the following
code, provided by >Microsoft Support,
and paste it into the editor:
Sub FollowLink()
Selection.Hyperlinks(1).Follow
End Sub - Close Microsoft Visual Basic. Your macro will be saved automatically and you'll be returned to your form to continue your work.
- Open the "Forms" toolbar by clicking on "View," "Toolbars" and "Customize." Place a check mark by "Forms" to add it to the toolbar.
- Display formatting marks on your page by clicking on the "View/Hide" button in the "Standard" toolbar. Alternatively, you may go to the "Tools" menu, choose "Options" and then click on the "View" tab. Add add a check mark to "All."
- Place your cursor where you want to add the form with hyperlink. Select the "Text Form Field" button from the "Forms" toolbar and double-click on the form characters added to your page. These characters will look like five small circles (ooooo).
- Pick "Regular Text" for "Type" and enter a form field into the "Default text" text box. Click "OK." A form field will be added to your document. Select the form field you added to your page and click on "Insert" and "Hyperlink" from the toolbar.
- Choose the link location in the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box. To link to a file or web page, select "Existing File or Web Page." Browse to link another document to your file or type in the link in the "Address" text box and click "OK."
- Select "Place in This Document" to link to another section in the document if desired and then click "OK." To link to an email address, select "E-mail Address" instead. Enter the email address into the box and click "OK."
- Select the hyperlinked text on your page and then press "Alt+F9" on your keyboard to display the hyperlink's code, such as {HYPERLINK "http://www.sitename.com/"}.
- Select the text and press "Ctrl+F9" to add another set of brackets and gray shading to the previous code, such as { {HYPERLINK "http://www.sitename.com/"} }.
- Modify the code by adding
MacroButton "FollowLink" just after the first
bracket. According to Microsoft Support, your code should
be similar to this example:
{ MacroButton "FollowLink"{ HYPERLINK "http://www.sitename.com/" } }
- Reopen the "Form" toolbar by going to the "View" menu and choosing "Toolbars" and then "Forms" if it's closed. Protect the form to keep others from accessing your code by selecting the text and clicking on the "Protect Form" button in the "Forms" toolbar.
Read more: How to Add a Hyperlink to a MS Word Form | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5896482_add-hyperlink-ms-word-form.html#ixzz1IwTrVdxY
Page last updated: May 31, 2012 14:35 PM
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