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Default Can I copy a scanned form to Word and then complete the blanks?

Greg chose to take his hissy-fit to email. He doesn't recognize that
OP wasn't asking whether it was theoretically possible; he wanted to
know if it made sense to do it that way.

On Feb 22, 6:24*pm, "Greg Maxey"
wrote:
Peter,

Still can't admit that you can be wrong?. *Would you like to make a small
wager? *You send me a scanned blank form inserted as an image in a Word
document and I send it back filled out. *Then you send a check for $100..00.
Otherwise figure it out yourself.

grammatim wrote:
I'd like to see you try it.


On Feb 22, 2:06 pm, "Greg Maxey"
wrote:
No is not the correct answer.


A preprinted form scanned into Word is an InLineShape (or picture)
but there is nothing to prevent a user from placing frames over the
blank spaces in the image and then entering text into these frames.


The insert frames control is located on the Forms toolbar in
Word2003. The frame can be anchored outside the pre-printed form
image and then positioned appropriately.


grammatim wrote:
No. A scanned document is a picture of a document.


On Feb 22, 12:54 pm, DonR wrote:
I want to copy a preprinted form, something like a blank tax
return, into Word and then use the keyboard to enter data into the
form. Can I do this in Word 2007 and if so .. how?