[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You use a single cell, with the drawing lines behind it. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"rutica" wrote in message
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Thanks to both of you for writing.

Macropod: I wanted the lines because I was trying to recreate a
currently used form and that is how the original is displayed. You said
to "use a single-cell table with the row height set to 'at least' or
'exactly' your preferred dimension". To try your suggestion, I created
a 1 column/1 row table with a row height of 'at least' 1". But then I
just end up with a box. If a user types 2 rows of text, I don't get the
underlines beneath each line.

Suzanne: I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "use drawing lines
anchored to the paragraph in the cell." To try your suggestion, I
created a table with 1 column/3 rows. In Borders and Shading I removed
the left and right border lines. Then from the Drawing toolbar I
dragged the Line icon 3 different times to try to match the 3 rows in
my table. But, when testing it, when I get to the end of a line and
keep typing or press Enter, the second line still floats on *top *of
the line instead of resting *on *the line.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks



Suzanne S. Barnhill;355938 Wrote:
And if the lines are truly important, you can use drawing lines anchored
to
the paragraph in the cell. This takes a bit of trial and error, but you
can
get them spaced to match the line spacing of the paragraph so that text

wraps naturally onto the lines (or appearing to be so).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"macropod" lid wrote in message
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Hi Rutica,

Is there a reason you need the lines? You could use a single-cell
table
with the row height set to 'at least' or 'exactly' your preferred
dimension.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"rutica" wrote in message
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I am using Word 2003. I created a form that users complete in Word
(online form).

All is well until I get to a section where I want 3 blank lines, such
as:

Explain:
__________________________________________________ _______________

__________________________________________________ _______________

__________________________________________________ _______________

First I created a table with one column and 3 rows and hide the left
and right borders. But let's say users need to enter text that takes
2
lines. When they get to the end of the first line and need to enter
more text, they don't end up jumping to the line below. The first
sentence ends up floating above the underline.

SO IT LOOKS LIKE:

Explain:
Blah blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah
blah blah


_blah_Blah_blah_blah_blah_Blah_blah_blah_blah_blah _blah_blah_blah_blah_bla__

__________________________________________________ _______________

__________________________________________________ ______________


INSTEAD OF
Explain:

_Blah_blah_blah_blah_blah_Blah_blah_blah_blah_Blah _blah_blah_blah_Blah_blah_blah_


_blah_Blah_blah_blah_blah_Blah_blah_blah_blah_blah _blah_blah_blah_blah_bla__

__________________________________________________ _______________



Is there a way for all the text to have an underline?

Thanks,




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