How to setup a form-based document

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Beverly

Hello,

I'm creating a contract in MS Word (2003) that will have several areas that
need information typed in later. I want those areas to be underlined. Can
someone tell me how to insert some type of button/field so that I can just
click on that area when I am ready to type in it and it will automatically
all be underlined? Right now, if I start typing in that area, it moves the
text to the right as I'm typing and I have to reformat everything everytime
I do.

Thanks for the help,
Beverly
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

I really don't see the point of having this text underlined. I would think
that you would want a contract to appear to have been created for a specific
purpose, not as a form document (even though it is); in such a case, you
would want the text to reflow naturally. MacroButton fields will do just
what you want (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm), albeit without
the underlining (though I suppose you could underline the field). If you
really want to preserve the layout, you're going to have to use form fields
and put them in a table with cells of fixed height and width, which doesn't
seem to me at all reasonable for a contract.
 
C

Charles Kenyon

You can do this with online forms or with macrobuttons. With macrobuttons
you can even have your underlines disappear after your answer is typed in.
See http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/fields.htm#MacroButton and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm for more
about macrobutton fields.

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

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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