MS Word 11 responses on “ MS Word – Bug – Cannot Turn Off Design Mode” Then add to that a useless error message, like the one shown above, and you get the current mess. So either the documentation is incomplete or there is a bug in which you cannot have an empty placeholder. Furthermore, nowhere in any of the documentation relative to placeholders have I found any mention that it cannot be blank/empty. To paraphrase Microsofts instructions: Click the File tab. To start playing around with Content Controls, you first need to activate the Developer tab in Words Ribbon. ex: 'Your Name' Trying to make a template where people can just click on things and replace the placeholder text. These use a Word feature called Content Controls. Word 2010 content controls enable various potential structured document solutions, but in Word 2013 content controls enable a greater range of scenarios. Step 2: click Advanced located left of Option window, check or uncheck Show picture placeholders in Show document content to show or. The following content controls are available in Word 2010: Rich Text. But if there is any data in the control, the user must double-click to select it and then delete it. Step 1: If you are using Word 2007, click Office icon, and then click Word Options If you are using Word 2010, click File tab, and then click Options. Words Placeholder Text acts differently than when data is present-with Placeholder Text (or when blank), the user only has to click once in the content control to enter their data (if there is placeholder text, it deletes with a single click). So we’ll file this under, yet another, Microsoft BUG! because once upon a time, when I originally created the documents, this did not pose a problem, but today it does, so at some point in time Microsoft changed things and created this issue. There is a second type of placeholder, the one used to display information about your findings. Show or hide picture placeholders in Word 2007/2010/2013. Simply enter a space as the placeholder text.Apparently, Word has a tantrum if this is done and gives us the error message quoted above which is less than useless in this scenario! The solution is: When I created my Content Controls, I deleted the placeholders. I did some more tests, created a few new documents and tried various operations trying to identify the cause of the problem and I finally figured it out. I’ve used it on multiple documents and it works! So simply open the VBA editor (VBE) and use the above command in the Immediate Window. Just to alert you: Using Office application automation using COM in ASP. Placeholder text is a text that only shows up when the content of a content control is empty (e.g. Use the Plain Text Content Control as a placeholder for a user to enter text into the document. This is because you are changing the placeholder text and not the text of the content control. To enable it in Word 2010, choose File > Options > Customize Ribbon. And low and behold, it switched back to normal mode and deactivated the Design Mode. Re: Word 2010: updating text of contentcontrol using c.
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