WD97: Squares Appear in Text Form Field Inserted from User Form

ID: Q192161

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you insert data from a text box on a user form into a Microsoft Word document text form field, square characters appear and are printed in the document.


CAUSE

When you press ENTER to begin a new line in a text box on a user form with the MultiLine and EnterKeyBehavior properties set to True, a square character is used to represent the carriage return character (CHR(10)). This character is not visible if the text is displayed in a message box or inserted into the document itself.


WORKAROUND

Do not use a text box on a user form with the MultiLine property set to True to get a Microsoft Word document form field result (value or text).


MORE INFORMATION

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The following Visual Basic for Applications macro uses the InStr function to take the carriage return character (Chr(10)) out of the text string before inserting it into a text form field.

The following code is assigned to a command button on the user form. 


Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
ActiveDocument.FormFields("text1").Result = CleanString(TextBox1.Text)
UserForm1.Hide
End Sub


REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

Additional query words: wordcon kbimu 


Keywords          : kbdta kbmacroexample kbwordvba 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: May 19, 1999