Editing scanned docs

[larry]

I was able to scan a questionnaire into Word . Had to move the text around a little to make it look the orig doc. I'm all set to fill in the blanks in the questionnaire, but when I do the format starts to scramble again. How do I make the scanned doc remain locked and just be able to fill in the blanks

Thanks.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

You could try using text boxes where the "fill in the blank" spaces should
be.
Just a Work Around.

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.

I was able to scan a questionnaire into Word . Had to move the text around

a little to make it look the orig doc. I'm all set to fill in the blanks in
the questionnaire, but when I do the format starts to scramble again. How do
I make the scanned doc remain locked and just be able to fill in the blanks?

 

[larry]

Andre

Works, but leaves an actual box around the text

Thanks

larry

 

[tjtjjtjt]

Use the drawing toolbar to remove the lines from around the text

Did you check out the Document Imaging tool in the Office Tools. It might not be there before 2002, but you can use it to transform scanned text into a document and have Word treat it like a document

tj

 

[Graham Mayor]

It sounds like you have converted the document to text. It might have been
simpler to have left it as a graphic and used that as a background image in
Word, over which you could lay a borderless table to accept your input.

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