Dynamic Text Box size

Diana,



I had emailed you a working sample form that was designed in Designer 7. You can use it as a template for your other forms since they are similar in format and layout.

Let me know if you have any problems.

Jimmy or anybody that cares,



I am to the point of near tears now...I don't mind sharing my email address if you don't want to put it out on the forum I understand. My address is dianescanlon@afninet.com if you would rather just email me and not post it so I can send you my example. Basically, i think the problem may be that when i import from word, the orginial word document was not designed very well. So you have text and then text field next to each other. When I make sure the subform below the growing fields have flow content selected, for some reason it moves the text below the other fields and keeps moving them around. I have somebody else helping me and they are saying I need to start from scatch, i hate to do that because everything is set up, i just can't wrap and i have at least 40 word documents to convert to PDF.



Thanks.



Diane

Hi Jimmy,



Thanks for the tip. I can get that to work but when I make sure every field is wrapped by a "Flow content" subform, all the fields move up to the left top corner of the page. I am importing a word document, i don't know if this makes a difference. I wish I could send you an attachment so you could try it. Let me know if there is a way you would be able to look at doc and if i could send it to you and at what address.



Thanks.



Diane

Dianescanlon,



You need to make sure all other fields below the growing text field is wrapped by a "flow content" subform. This way, when the text field expands, it pushes other fields downward.



Hope this helps.

Ok I finally got the text to wrap successfully and it grows if you add multiple lines of text. However, on the form I have a bunch of fields and if for example, i type in field one, it grows right over the fields below. So it grows but the next fields below do not move to allow for the extra words typed in.

Thanks for the tip, Sgreen!



While we are all looking at this, I am working on the second half of my document, which requires the form to expand as the fields do.



I have read above, "If you wish the rest of the document to reflow, you must define the text field within a subform which is in turn a child of a flow content subform."



I am trying to make sense of this...hopefully I will figure it out.

Tossing it through a window might hurt an innocent bystander. I prefer using a golf club or baseball bat (so long as they are from my old set!) :-)

MAN! David, you rock! That was is. I was attempting to preview from the unsaved document. Once I saved it as you suggested...it worked fine. Thanks! I was getting ready to toss this computer through a window...now thanks to everyone here...I can continue my project until the next problem!

Make sure you have this saved as a dynamic PDF. It will not work for a static document.

Jimmy,



Thanks for the response. I followed your directions to the letter, and still have the same results as before. I can type multiple lines, and I get the scroll bar in the box, but when I click off the field (tab out or click on the document elsewhere) all that happens is I get a plus symbol at the bottom right corner of my box, but it is not resized.



This is driving me crazy. If it is possible, I can send off my simple single text box form for review. I just can't figure out what I am missing.