Formatting text in Word 97 protected form fields

[JillT]

I am creating an on-line which which requires the user to change the font to strikeout and back to normal in a form field.

I planned to use 2 buttons on the toolbar to run macros; the first to turn protection off and change the font style to strikeout; the second to turn protection back on, retaining the data and changing back to normal style.

However, when the second macro runs, the whole form field is selected and I can't get the cursor to move to the end of the text which is formatted to strikeout to allow the user to continue in normal style.

This seems such a simple thing to do, but is driving me mad!

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,
Don't have much experience with Word VBA, but doing some sleuthing in the object browser, this may give you a tack....
FormField.Range.Characters
If you look at the Characters Collection in Help, you may find something that you could use -- perhapse the InsertAfter Method to add characters to a Range Object.

Sorry that I can't be of mor help. Skip,
metzgsk@voughtaircraft.com