On 07/13/2007 01:20 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 07/13/2007 07:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Thank you! This worked by great by customizing the keyboard with >> your instructions. > > Cool! Glad it worked. Can we now claim that the Savannah PD use OOo? > :-) > > One other point; I found when importing a MS Doc with fill-in fields > that sometimes a field may not get marked as a bookmark. If you run > into this problem, you can easily fix it by going to the start of the > fill-in and Insert|Bookmark. That will then create a bookmark for the > fill-in. > > Gary > >> >> You can assign certain keys to various functions. For this test >> we'll assign F4 (instead of Tab) to move between the fill-in >> fields. Try this on one of your templates/forms: >> >> 1. Select Tools|Customize|Keyboard >> >> Category Function Navigate >> To Next Bookmark >> >> 2. Now in Shortcut keys section scroll up and click on 'F4' 3. >> Click the 'Modify' button then 'OK' >> >> Now in your form if you press F4 you will go to the next fill-in >> field. You can also set a key to go back to the previous bookmark >> etc. Note: don't both with Next Input Field etc as that will bring >> up the field text editor rather than moving you to the next >> bookmark. >>
Apologies for tagging on to my previous response to Debbie, however in working with the form that she sent to me I've discovered some interesting behavior when importing from a MS Word doc w/input fields, and also run into a problem that I can't figure out (yet:-). Hopefully someone on the list will have some suggestions. Background/situation for navigation: When working with an 'input field' form in MS Word (I tested with MSO 2003 Word) you can easily Tab between the input fields (IF). An example of such a form is available here: http://www.customs.govt.nz/library/form/C+Forms/default.htm download and open the 'Ship Inward Report' document: <http://www.customs.govt.nz/nr/rdonlyres/af900edf-a296-450a-a78b-d3f190e234b7/0/formc1new.doc> Note: Debbie sent a typical form from her police department that I am working with, but the NZ Customs form will work just as well for testing. In MSO 2003 Word you can also use the Right arrow key to move between the IF and the Left arrow key to move back to the previous. I found that the Right and Left arrow keys can be programed in OOo 2.2.1 (linux and Windows) and 2.3dev (linux - I don't have 2.3dev installed on Windows so I can't test) to do the same via Tools|Customize|Keyboard, but of course you need to replace the defaults to do this. Interestingly enough I found that on the Ubuntu'ized (linux) version of OO 2.2.0, this Right/Left arrow key navigation works exactly as in MSO. Hopefully one day all the distro's will publish diff's so that we can figure out it all. New problem: The MSO Word forms that Debbie's police department uses are protected so that the person filling out the forms do not alter any of the text outside of the IF. I expect that this is reasonable and quite common. MSO Word has a nice feature whereby you can protect the document but allow IF input. I suspect/hope that OOo has a similar feature, but for the life of me I can't find it. I've searched the Writer Guide and other OOo documents and still can't figure out how to do it. Can anyone offer suggestions on how this can be accomplished? I'm sure that others making a MSO conversion to OOo must have run across this previously. Note: please use the NZ Customs form/doc formc1new.doc as a base test document so that there is a common test doc. Take that MSO doc, open in 2.2.1 and protect the doc so that text outside of the IF's can not be changed. Example: Name of ship should be protected and not changeable by the user filling out the form, but the user should be able to enter information in the IF just to the right of 'Name of ship'. Checkboxes such as: "Crew list sent electronically" should also be able to be check by mouse (or even some programed key combination. So, little help here... Perhaps if we can figure this out we can help Debbie's PD convert to OOo, not to mention other's that face a similar situation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
