Note: If you use ActiveX Control, you need to save the document as a file format that supports macros, such as In addition, there are related cases mentioned in MSDN: Īs for how to highlight these content, you can set the text box border and background color in the properties. If the property value sets the Enterkeybehavior “ True”, you can use To edit content, you need to right-click the text box and click on TextBox Object> Edit. Exit design mode by clicking on the button under theĭeveloper tab and you should now have an editable and scrollable multi-line text box in your document. Set the ScrollBar property to Both, Horizontal, Vertical etc according to your own needs.ĥ. You will want to change theĮnterKeyBehavior, MultiLine and ScrollBars properties. To change the properties of the text box, select the text box and then click
You can expand the control to the desired size.Ĥ.
By default, the text box is opened in the design mode. Word creates a text box field at the cursor position. On the Word Ribbon, under tab Developer, click icon But for formatting text and viewing, using this method may be still inconvenient.Ĭlick File > Options > Customize Ribbon, checkĭeveloper tab to enable it, then click OK.Ģ. As far as I know, we can try to use the ActiveX control in the developer tool to insert a text box with scroll bars in Word.
