I don't believe I said it was pointless for your organization; I said it was
pointless for forms to be filled out online. The problem with such
dual-purpose forms is that they're trying to do do entirely different jobs
at the same time; it is very little more work (and much more satisfactory)
to create parallel forms, one to be filled out by hand, one to be filled out
online.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"bondg" bondg_AT_stcsc.edu wrote in message
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Thanks, I suppose, for your contribution. However, it's not up to you to
determine what's pointless and what's not in my organization. As I said
in
my first post, this form will sometimes be filled out by hand and
sometimes
online. This makes the lines useful.

GB


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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This is not the way tables are designed to behave. For forms to be
filled
out online, it is is rather pointless to have lines for users to type
on;
lines like this are intended primarily for forms to be filled out by
hand
(they actually cause more trouble than they're worth when you try to
fill
out a form with a typewriter). If you insist on having the lines,
however,
the only practical way to do this is to make one table cell of the
desired
depth and create drawing lines at the desired intervals (same spacing as
the
paragraph line spacing). Anchor them all to the table paragraph or form
field. For more, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"bondg" bondg_AT_stcsc.edu wrote in message
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Thanks much, Stefan for your reply. However, I'm still stuck. I'm
sorry
I
wasn't more clear. The setting you describe (Wrap Text) is already
set,
but
that refers to wrapping text within any given cell. I'm looking to
"wrap"
from one cell to the next (maybe "flow text from one cell to the next"
would
be more correct).

In my example sketch below, the leading text is in a cell with no
borders
showing, then the following line is the bottom border of the next cell,
and
finally, the last two lines are the bottom borders of full-table-width
cells. I'm hoping to be able to construct this table so that when
users
fill out the form and enter text to fill that first cell, MSWord then
moves
the insertion point to the next row/cell.

This is the name of some company: ___________________
______________________________________________
______________________________________________

Perhaps a macro would work here? Something that would, after X number
of
characters is entered, move the insertion point on to the next cell?

Any help is much appreciated.

GB