Highlight Date fields and content controls until updated

Question

I am building a MS Words template to share with my team and the footer includes:  Copyright Year, creation Month and Year, and placeholder text for registered products.  I'm using Quick Part fields for the two dates and rich text content control for the registered marks.  For the date fields, I would like for the text to be highlighted yellow until they click <Update>, which will cause the highlight to disappear.  Same with the content control.  I would like the placeholder text to be highlighted yellow until they enter the field, in which case the highlight will disappear.

Is this possible?  Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible, but that also means using a macro-enabled document so you can use a macro to toggle the highlighting. There is, however, no way you can force the document's users to allow the macro to run, which means the highlighting won't necessarily get removed once they update the content control.

Subject to the above, such macros might be coded as:

Private Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal CCtrl As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)

With CCtrl

  If .Range.Text = .PlaceholderText Then

    .Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow

  Else

    .Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight

  End If

End With

End Sub

Answer 2

It's easier to enforce requirements\check validity of entries if you use a UserForm to gather the data.

See the following page of Greg Maxey's website :

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Create\_and\_employ\_a\_UserForm.htm