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Did you know you can use Preview to find out if your old data will open in your new form? Check it before you publish. Here's a blog post on that.

OH MAN! That was it! Thank you so much for all your help! I have finally finished up and will be presenting to my team the "New Better Form". I just am afraid of incorporating this new form to the old form because there has been so many changes that when trying to open up old form, it will not be backward compatible. Wish me luck!

I was having the same problem...so thanks for the info on changing font styles.  Do you know if it's possible to change the default settings for styles, such as for the Column Label style?...and if so how is it done?  I haven't been able to locate a "styles" options window as in other Office apps for configuring ...

I replicated this and published it out. what I found out is the final submit must not be converted to a submit. if you keep it Rules or rules and code you can add three rules when it is clicked. 1. increment = 10 2. submit data, using you "Main Submit" or what ever you named it. 3. Close the form   these actions keept he fields ...

Aw, thanks! Yup, multiple dropdowns, each using the specific data source, and only show one based on what the user selects. It is clunky, and can be a little hard to work with in design mode, but it is the most straightforward approach. Here's some stuff I would do to make it a bit better - Query only the data source I need when the ...

Thanks Hilary, First I would like to say you rock! I have followed this site for many years and your solutions are fabulous. When you state the conditional formatting route you mean the multiple hidden dropdowns and only showing the valid one based on user selection, right?

I can't think of a way through the UI, except the approach you've taken w/ multiple dropdowns that use different data sources. If you data source is SQL, maybe you could create a view with all the options and a way to filter based on the other field.... but if they are assorted SharePoint lists, for example, the conditional formatting ...

Sounds like I need to adjust the XPath I'm using for the count expression - I'll get that fixed later today and post a new version.

It works great!  What a nice feature.  Thanks!

Yep! UDAMAN! That did it but the set field's value: increment2 = 10 given in the submit button didn't save when closing and opening again. Why didn't that value save so the Submit doesn't show up ever after the one submit? My submit button was visible