Fill-in Type-over fields

Question

How do you create fields where text is displayed, but when you click on it the text disappears so that the user can input their own information.  Essentially I want to create exactly what was used for this text box, where there was informartion displayed in light gray, but as soon as I clicked in here to type, the information disappeared so that only the information I've written appears.

Answer 1

have you ever successfully done this? Based on these instructions:

To do this, insert a field like:

{ MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and type name]}

I can't find a NoMacro prompt once I've clicked on MacroButton in the Fields properties Macro Name: drop down menu.  Which one should I select?

Late reply. You can download a free Add-In to insert macrobutton prompts from here:

MacroButton Prompt Add-In

Answer 2

If you must use the Insert Field dialog, then you can pick any macro you see in the list; after clicking OK to insert the field in the document, right-click the field to toggle the field code and edit it to replace the macro name with NoMacro.

The quicker alternative is to insert the field brackets in the document by pressing Ctrl+F9, and then typing or pasting the exact field code between the brackets. (You can't just type { } brackets from the keyboard, because they won't work as a field.)

The whole point of this "NoMacro" business is that there isn't any macro named NoMacro (unless you unwittingly write one with that name), so that clicking the MacroButton field has no effect other than selecting the field.

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Jay Freedman

MS Word MVP  FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Answer 3

have you ever successfully done this? Based on these instructions:

To do this, insert a field like:

{ MACROBUTTON NoMacro [Click here and type name]}

I can't find a NoMacro prompt once I've clicked on MacroButton in the Fields properties Macro Name: drop down menu.  Which one should I select?

Answer 4

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm