What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this
in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles.

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

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Eeyoremom" wrote in message
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We type up letters of appreciation and just change a few general items,
i.e.
who the letter is addressed to, the location where the help occurred,
people's names, type of help. Is there a way to format a letter to show
the
blanks for filling in these items. By the way, it is usually 1 letter at
a
time, but different people will use the same template letter off of a
share
drive