WD97: Text/Table Disappears Following Check Box Form Field

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you embed a file or selected text that contains a check box form field, one or both of the following cases may occur.

Case 1

Text or other parts of the file immediately following the check box form field will be missing.

Case 2

If the check box form field is contained in a table, text and table borders following the check box will be missing.

WORKAROUND

Do not insert the file or selected text containing the check box form field as an embedded object. Use one of the following methods instead.

Method 1: Insert the File

1. In your new document, click File on the Insert menu.

2. Select the file that contains the check box form field, and then click OK.

   NOTE: Click the Link To File check box in the Insert File dialog box, if you want to link to the file instead of embedding the file.

Method 2: Copy and Paste the File as a Word Hyperlink

1. In the document containing the check box form field, select the text of the document, and then on the Edit menu, click Copy.

2. In your new document, click Paste special on the Edit menu.

3. In the Paste Special dialog box, click to select the Paste Link button. In the "As" box, click Word Hyperlink, and then click OK.

   NOTE: Do not use Paste Special to paste the text as an object or picture because then the same problem will occur.

1. Select the hyperlink.

2. On the Format menu, click Font.

3. In the Underline box, select None.

4. In the Color box, select Auto.

5. Click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

REFERENCES

For more information about embedding a document, click Contents And Index on the Help menu, click the Index tab in Help Topics: Microsoft Word, type the following text

   embedded objects, creating