OK, I see what you mean about the popups. My attempt was not in a table and I may have inserted a bookmark. I tried bookmarks in the table (within and outside of a section), but the behavior isn't satisfactory.
Sorry about the mis-step. jd On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 18:12 -0700, NoOp wrote: > On 07/14/2007 09:08 PM, JimNLori wrote: > > I did do it, yes. I didn't rewrite the document - I added a section > > just above the existing input fields as a test. I then added a new input > > field within the section, then saved, closed and made the permissions > > read-only. Opened it up and, yes, I could enter data into my new field. > > > > > > Thanks for trying & I really appreciate your taking the time to give it > a shot... but that doesn't resolve what the problem is: > > 1. Open MS Word Doc with fill-in fields. > 2. Protect the document so that text outside of the fill-in fields > cannot be edited. > 3. Allow the user to enter data into the fill-in fields without having > to do it via a pop-up Input Field box. In other words, from the keyboard > without mouse interaction. > > This problem appears on several (and several years old) bug reports in > some fashion or another. Unless there are other suggestions (and I hope > there are both from Jim & others) I reckon it's off to OOo bug report land. > > Related posts/bugs that I could find: > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=65757 > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47799 > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33737 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
