Form Samples Data Entry Microsoft Word For Mac

A data form provides a convenient way to enter or display one complete row of information in a range or table. The data form displays all the columns so that you.

Despite it is not possible to completely avoid using it in academic work on a Mac. If you have to edit texts in MS Word you might as well do it smoothly and efficiently, by replacing mouse movements with keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately, keyboard shortcuts in Word on Mac are significantly different from those in other Mac apps and in Word for Windows. Some of those are, but many of my favorite commands are not in this list.

Fortunately, there is a way to define keyboard shortcuts for most frequent tasks. One way to do it is through System Preferences. The Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard preference pane allows you to define shortcuts for performing menu commands from specific apps, including MS Word (see example in the screenshot below).

Unfortunately, this method has not been working perfectly for me because (a) one needs to type menu commands exactly as they appear in MS Word, even a smallest typo will lead to malfunction and (b) some of the things I want shortcuts for are not menu commands. For example, I often want to change the style of a particular paragraph to one of the standard styles such as Title or Footnote Text. The default word template does not have keyboard shortcuts for such styles (although it does for more frequently used Normal and Heading 1-3).

Normally I would take my mouse, go to the style selection window and scroll through dozens of styles to find the one I need. For years, I really missed an MS Word for Windows shortcut ^⌥S which would bring my cursor directly to the style selection window and let me just type the name of the style I need. And I had no idea how to do it through System Preferences, because it’s not really a menu command. Recently I discovered that Word has a menu item called Customize Keyboard where you can really define a shortcut for getting anywhere you want inside the program. I immediately found a solution to my problem: Here are three more shortcuts I have defined through this feature and use very extensively: • ^⌥C – insert; • ^⌘R – insert; • ^⌘Space – clear formatting (i.e. Return to default style formatting).

Creating Fillable Forms Using Microsoft Word When you hear about fillable forms, you probably think of Adobe and PDF documents. However, if you have Microsoft Office, you can achieve a similar result using MS Word. Enable Developer Tab. Open Microsoft Word, then go to the File Tab > Options > Customize Ribbon > check the Developer Tab in the right column > Click OK. A developer tab will populate. The Controls section has about eight different options that can be added to your Word document: Rich Text, Plain-Text, Picture, Building Block Gallery, Checkbox, Combo Box, Drop-Down List, and Date Picker. Insert a Control. Click on the control and it will appear wherever your cursor was located.

In the example below are two plain-text boxes inserted into a simple table for first name and last name. Name for usb cable. By default, each control has its own filler text. For a plain text control, it is ‘Click or tap here to enter text.’ 3. Edit Filler Text. Customize the filler text for any control by clicking on Design Mode. You’ll see blue placeholders appear around your place holder. Select the text and change it to whatever you like.

Click on the Design Mode button again to exit the mode. 4. Customize Content Controls. Highlight your new form field and then click on Properties, directly below the Design Mode button. Here you can give the control a title, change the color, style the text and specify whether or not the control can be edited or deleted. At the very bottom are the control specific options, so if you have a plain text control set up, you can control how many lines you want to allow. That last option is useful if you need someone to type in a paragraph of text. Plain-text control vs.

Rich text control In a rich text control, you can change the font/color settings for each word individually, whereas the plain-text control will apply the formatting to all the text. Plain-text controls do allow bold, font changes or color changes. Add a Drop Down List If you need a drop down field added to your form go ahead and insert the drop down control. Highlight the field and again go to Properties to add your custom drop down options. By default, the Display Name and Value will be the same, but you can change it if you like. There really is no reason to change the value unless you are writing Word macros and refer to the controls in code. Hint: If your drop down field is not displaying make sure you are out of the Design Mode control.

Drop Down List vs. Combo Box The only difference between the dropdown list control and the combo box control is that the latter allows the user to enter their own value. Date Picker The date picker control works just like any date picker you have probably used before. When you click on it, a calendar appears and you can simply click on the date to select it. Picture Control allows the user to upload or insert an image file easily.