Hi Manuel,
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CPH
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:28, Manuel Carrusca wrote:
> Hello,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
>
>
>
> I resend this message (with some changes) because the version I sent
> yesterday was quite hard to read.
>
>
>
> Here are some of the conclusions I came to, about the migration of
> Microsoft Word forms to OpenOffice.Org Writer 1.9.113, when these forms
> have only "Text", "Drop-Down" and "Check Box" form fields created in Word
> with the "Forms toolbar" (and not with the Control Toolbox toolbar"):
>
>
>
> I - Word "Text Form Fields", when the "Type" is "Regular text", "Number" or
> "Date", become Writer "Input Fields". This causes some important problems:
>
>
>
> I - a) Some properties are lost, like "Type", "Maximum length" and "Format"
> (for example: "Uppercase" or "Lowercase" for "Regular text"; "0,00" or "0%"
> for "Number"). So, in Writer, you can type whatever you want with any
> format and length inside an "Input Field", when you shouldn't, leading, for
> example, to the opening of new lines and pages;
>
> I - b) When you try to fill an "Input Field", a dialog is open. If you
> press the "ENTER" key when you finish writing, you go to the next line in
> the dialog instead of closing it. Moreover, some blank characters are added
> to your text if you don't delete them. Perhaps a quicker way to fill these
> fields is to press CTRL+SHIFT+F9 to open the first field in the document
> and, then, press ALT+N to go to the next field;
>
>
>
> II - Word "Text Form Fields", when the "Type" is "Current date", "Current
> time" or "Calculation", become simple text;
>
>
>
> III - Word "Drop-Down Form Fields" become Writer "Input Lists". To choose
> an option the user must select it from a dialog and this is the only change
> I detected;
>
>
>
> IV - Word "Check Box Form Fields" become Writer "Check Box Form Controls".
> However:
>
>
>
> IV - a) If, in Word, check boxes size was increased from the default value,
> they become smaller in Writer (3 check boxes of different sizes in Word
> have the same size in Writer) and loose their alignment with text;
>
> IV - b) If, in Word, check boxes where shaded, they become unshaded in
> Writer;
>
> IV - c) Check boxes change from flat (in Word) to 3D (in Writer).
>
>
>
> Some of these issues are pointed out at page 14 of the "OpenOffice.org
> Migration Guide", from OOoAuthors, published 24 June 2005.
>
>
>
> Now can you (or anyone else reading this message) answer the following
> questions to help me solve these problems:
>
>
>
> 1 - What is the best way, in Writer, to change "Input Fields" into
> something like Word "Text Form Fields"? Is it to use "Form Controls"?
>
> 1.1 - "Text Boxes" to limit text length?
>
> 1.2 - "Formatted Fields" (or perhaps "Numeric Fields"?) to force the use of
> numbers?
>
> 1.3 - "Date Fields", "Time Fields", "Currency Fields"?
>
>
>
> 2 - How do I align "Form Controls" (like "Text Boxes" or "Check Boxes")
> with the text in the middle of which they are inserted?
>
>
>
> 3 - About "Check Boxes", how do I:
>
> 3.1 - Change their size ("Position and Size" command seems not to work);
>
> 3.2 - Shade them ("Background color" command seems not to work too);
>
>
>
> Now about the message Wawrzecki Tomasz sent to me July 14, 2005 11:15 AM:
>
>
>
> Although I understood the main idea of your answer ("migration doesn't
> work"), I would like to know:
>
>
>
> - Do the "mistakes" your "migration generated" match the ones I list above?
>
> - What do you mean exactly by "forms (in MS WORD) without any active x
> elements"?
>
>
>
> About forms, OpenOffice.org 1.9.113 is better than 1.1.4 at least in one
> thing: check boxes don't just disappear in Write when they are created in
> Word with the "Forms" toolbar...
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and patience to read this long e-mail.
>
>
>
> Manuel Carrusca
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: TFI - Wawrzecki Tomasz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent: quinta-feira, 14 de Julho de 2005 11:15
>
> To: Manuel Carrusca; [email protected]
>
> Cc: Rui Godinho
>
> Subject: RE: Documentation for Forms migration
>
>
>
> I use oo 1.1.4 and this kind of migration doesn't work.
>
> I have some forms (in MS WORD) without any active x elements but migration
>
> generate so many mistakes that I decided to create forms in Oo from base.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Manuel Carrusca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:11 PM
>
> To: [email protected]
>
> Cc: Rui Godinho
>
> Subject: Documentation for Forms migration
>
>
>
> Hello,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
>
> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
>
>
>
> I am going to migrate forms created in "Microsoft Word" to "OpenOffice.org
>
> Writer".
>
>
>
> Can anyone suggest documentation about:
>
>
>
> * How to create forms not linked to a database in "OpenOffice.org
>
> Writer" (beyond "OpenOffice.org Help");
>
>
>
> * Issues with forms created in "Microsoft Word", when imported in
>
> "OpenOffice.org Writer", and workarounds for those issues (some of them are
>
> pointed out at page 14 of the "OpenOffice.org Migration Guide", from
>
> OOoAuthors, published 24 June 2005).
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
>
> Manuel Carrusca
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