How do I create tabs or navigation in a word form?

[Laurie Coles]

How would I create tabs (for lack of a better word) so that when you are
finished filling in one field you could hit the tab button and it would
automatically jump to the next field. Also when printing out this form how
can I have the filled in portions of the field underlined? Your help is
certainly appreciated. Thanks, Laurie

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you insert formfields in the places in which you want the data to be
entered and then protect the document for forms, when you use the tab key,
the selection will move from one formfield to the next. To have lines
appear under where the data is to be inserted, the usual way if to create
the form as a table with the formfields in cells to which a bottom border
only is applied.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP