By default, the Display Name and Value will be the same, but you can change it if you like. In order to add items to the list, you have to click on Properties.Ĭlick the Add button and then type in a name for your choice. You’ll see it says Choose an item and that’s it. Next, I went ahead and added a drop down list control to my form. You would think the plain-text control would not allow bold, font changes or color changes, but it does. 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. So what’s the difference between a plain-text control and a rich text control? Well, not much. That last option is useful if you need someone to type in a paragraph of text. At the very bottom are the control specific options, which for the case of a plain text control, is whether you want to allow multiple lines or not. 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. Each control will have a standard set of options with custom options at the bottom based on what type of control it is.
Next, click on your newly added control so that it is highlighted and then click on Properties, which is directly below the Design Mode button.
Click on the Design Mode button again to exit the mode. Select the text and change it to whatever you like. You’ll see some blue placeholders appear on the left and right of any controls you have added to your document. You can edit this text for any control by clicking on the Design Mode button that is to the right of the control icons. For a plain text control, it is Click or tap here to enter text. In my example below, I created a table and added two plain-text boxes for first name and last name.īy default, each control has its own filler text. To insert a control, just click on it and it will appear wherever your cursor was located. The Controls section has about eight different controls 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. The section we are most interested in is Controls.
If you would like to resume using user names within the same document, visit “ How to Stop Microsoft Word from Calling You “Author” in Track Changes.Click OK and click on the tab in the ribbon. Verify that all user names have been changed to Author in the Track Changes balloons, as shown in figure 1. Save, close, and reopen your document.ġ3. Select the Close button to close the Document Inspector dialog box. Select the Remove All button next to Document Properties and Personal Information. Document Properties and Personal Information checkboxĨ. Uncheck all the options in the Document Inspector dialog box except Document Properties and Personal Information. (This dialog box may not appear if you recently saved your changes.) Figure 6. Save your document by selecting Yes in the question dialog box. Select Inspect Document in the drop-down menu.
Ensure that you are in the Info tab in the Backstage view. (Please see the Caution statement above.)Ģ. Open a secondary copy of your original document saved under a different file name. Therefore, you should complete this process on a secondary copy of your document rather than on the original.ġ. It also permanently removes authorship and “Last Modified By” data. Caution: This process is not reversible and applies to all users associated with the document, even those who haven’t used Track Changes.