How to Make a Form Field Required in Word - Create Prompt For Users To Fill In Mandatory Fields

HOW TO MAKE A FORM FIELD REQUIRED IN WORD // Making form fields mandatory for your users to complete by programming a macro that will pop up a message requiring the user to fill in the form field before they can move to the next field. This ensures the user inputs something into that form field before they can move to the next field.

Here is the Visual Basic code we used in this video. Be sure to follow all the steps and instructions in the video so you'll know how to modify this code to fit your particular needs.

Sub MustFillIn()
If ActiveDocument.FormFields("LastName").Result = "" Then
Do
sInFld = InputBox("This field is required, please fill in below.")
Loop While sInFld = ""
ActiveDocument.FormFields("LastName").Result = sInFld
End If
End Sub

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