Re: [JAWS-Users] Help with creating fillable forms in Word 2010

[Brian Vogel]

Mike,

 I have never found a method that allows you to go straight from a
fillable form in MS-Word to its equivalent in PDF.  All the converters I've
tried just convert to a straight PDF without the form fields.

 There might be something out there, though, and a little web
searching might uncover it.  Try searching on, "Microsoft Word Fillable
form to PDF fillable form" and see what pops up.

  If such does not exist then you'd need to create it with a PDF
editor that supports form fields.

Brian
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Re: [JAWS-Users] Help with creating fillable forms in Word 2010

[miketmote73]

Hi Brian!  When you create forms in Word, are you able to export them to a PDF 
format, and have the controls stat in tact using the methods you described in 
your email?  


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Subject: [JAWS-Users] Help with creating fillable forms in Word 2010

​​Fernando Gregoire wrote, in part:  " Fortunately Word still has the option, 
in the Developer tab together with the new content controls, a split button 
called Legacy Control which allows you to insert a form field like the ones 
available in Word 2003 and earlier, which are backward compatible and more 
accessible with the keyboard and JAWS. "

It's actually "Legacy Tools," but your central point still stands.  I customize 
the ribbon to include the developer tab, if you need assistance with this it 
needs to be a message of its own.  One can then get to the insert function for 
the various types of form fields with keyboard shortcuts, all of which start 
with ALT+L to throw focus to the Developer Tab, followed by N for the Legacy 
Controls area of the Controls Group, followed by one of the following:

  E for a text field
  H for a checkbox
  C for a dropdown form field (AKA a Combo Box)
  F for frame
  S for form field shading
  R for Reset form fields

Remember, you need to be creating a Microsoft Word document template, a dotx 
file, not a docx regular document, and that when you are finished you will want 
to Protect the form from editing *except* for those fields where you want the 
end user to be able to type in data.  You do that via ALT+L (Developer Ribbon), 
PE (Protect Item), then, under the "Editing Restrictions" section of the 
protection dialog check the checkbox for "Allow only this type of editing" in 
the document and selecting "Filling In Forms" from the associated dropdown 
associated with the checkbox, then hitting the "Yes, start enforcing 
protection" button.

I far prefer the legacy controls to the current ones.   Do keep in mind
that as text fields get filled in the content will shift what's in the 
remainder of the form.  As a result, I don't ever put text fields of 
indeterminate size next to one another, but on completely separate lines.

Brian
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[JAWS-Users] Help with creating fillable forms in Word 2010

[Brian Vogel]

​​Fernando Gregoire wrote, in part:  " Fortunately Word still has the
option, in the Developer tab together with the new content controls, a
split button called
Legacy Control which allows you to insert a form field like the ones available
in Word 2003 and earlier, which are backward compatible and more accessible
with the keyboard and JAWS. "

It's actually "Legacy Tools," but your central point still stands.  I
customize the ribbon to include the developer tab, if you need assistance
with this it needs to be a message of its own.  One can then get to the
insert function for the various types of form fields with keyboard
shortcuts, all of which start with ALT+L to throw focus to the Developer
Tab, followed by N for the Legacy Controls area of the Controls Group,
followed by one of the following:

  E for a text field
  H for a checkbox
  C for a dropdown form field (AKA a Combo Box)
  F for frame
  S for form field shading
  R for Reset form fields

Remember, you need to be creating a Microsoft Word document template, a
dotx file, not a docx regular document, and that when you are finished you
will want to Protect the form from editing *except* for those fields where
you want the end user to be able to type in data.  You do that via ALT+L
(Developer Ribbon), PE (Protect Item), then, under the "Editing
Restrictions" section of the protection dialog check the checkbox for
"Allow only this type of editing" in the document and selecting "Filling In
Forms" from the associated dropdown associated with the checkbox, then
hitting the "Yes, start enforcing protection" button.

I far prefer the legacy controls to the current ones.   Do keep in mind
that as text fields get filled in the content will shift what's in the
remainder of the form.  As a result, I don't ever put text fields of
indeterminate size next to one another, but on completely separate lines.

Brian
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