controlled access within a document

[OutbackPower]

I want to create a document with blanks within it, but only the blanks can be
changed. I want the other text to be protected. Is this possible?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you are describing is a protected form. For more information see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.