form fields

I am building a form that has mulitple fields, some are short fields (date,
time,etc.) others are narrative. When I protect the form to try out the
fields I am having trouble with the narrative field expanding my document.
Bottom line is that I want to insert text into my formfield and not have it
modify my document. Any help would be appreciated. Bob

Charles
Wed Apr 19 15:30:32 CDT 2006

Put your text form fields in fixed-size table cells or frames. What you are
talking about is what Word calls an "online form." For more about online
forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

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"mcneilr" <mcneilr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am building a form that has mulitple fields, some are short fields (date,
> time,etc.) others are narrative. When I protect the form to try out the
> fields I am having trouble with the narrative field expanding my document.
> Bottom line is that I want to insert text into my formfield and not have
> it
> modify my document. Any help would be appreciated. Bob