Hi Brian! When you create forms in Word, are you able to export them to a PDF format, and have the controls stat in tact using the methods you described in your email?
-----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Brian Vogel Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2018 6:56 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Help with creating fillable forms in Word 2010 Fernando Gregoire wrote, in part: " Fortunately Word still has the option, in the Developer tab together with the new content controls, a split button called Legacy Control which allows you to insert a form field like the ones available in Word 2003 and earlier, which are backward compatible and more accessible with the keyboard and JAWS. " It's actually "Legacy Tools," but your central point still stands. I customize the ribbon to include the developer tab, if you need assistance with this it needs to be a message of its own. One can then get to the insert function for the various types of form fields with keyboard shortcuts, all of which start with ALT+L to throw focus to the Developer Tab, followed by N for the Legacy Controls area of the Controls Group, followed by one of the following: E for a text field H for a checkbox C for a dropdown form field (AKA a Combo Box) F for frame S for form field shading R for Reset form fields Remember, you need to be creating a Microsoft Word document template, a dotx file, not a docx regular document, and that when you are finished you will want to Protect the form from editing *except* for those fields where you want the end user to be able to type in data. You do that via ALT+L (Developer Ribbon), PE (Protect Item), then, under the "Editing Restrictions" section of the protection dialog check the checkbox for "Allow only this type of editing" in the document and selecting "Filling In Forms" from the associated dropdown associated with the checkbox, then hitting the "Yes, start enforcing protection" button. I far prefer the legacy controls to the current ones. Do keep in mind that as text fields get filled in the content will shift what's in the remainder of the form. As a result, I don't ever put text fields of indeterminate size next to one another, but on completely separate lines. Brian For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
