Creating a Fillable Form in Microsoft Word 2016 with Mandatory fillable fields

Kindly Make sure that you set the appropriate "on exit" setting for the form field to run a macro. (Right-click on the field, choose Properties, and use the Exit drop-down list to select a macro to run.) The macro could check to make sure the value provided within the field is within acceptable bounds. If not, then the macro could move the insertion point back to the field to request input, or could prompt the user for the necessary information. The following is an example of a simple macro to do just this:

Sub MustFillIn()

If ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text1").Result = "" Then

    Do

        sInFld = InputBox("This field must be filled in, fill in below.")

    Loop While sInFld = ""

    ActiveDocument.FormFields("Text1").Result = sInFld

End If

End Sub

In this macro you would need to change the name of the field specified (Text1) to the name of the field you are using the macro with. This particular example checks to make sure that the user enters something—anything—in the field. Your macro, of course, could get much more specific in the checking it does.

For a more comprehensive approach, you could have the on-exit macros (if there is more than one mandatory field) set a system variable. When the user tries to save or close the form, the AutoExit macro could check the value of the variable, and if it shows there are mandatory fields not filled in, then a dialog box explaining the problem could be displayed..

Refer here:

https://wordribbon.tips.net/T008337_Using_Manda...

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