Sounds like you want to use tables with bottom borders for your form. Check
out the following (including the tutorials by Dian Chapman):

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm

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"Tommy 200" Tommy wrote in message
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I want to reposition a text box in a template so that the date is written
above the line instead on the line.