Hi,

What Suzanne was asking is are you using a template from which users create
new documents (rather than opening an existing document and reusing it).

The only way to keep the fields from resetting in versions of Word before
2002 (:XP) is with a macro.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...lfResetOff.htm

What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." 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. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.

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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"T.Babcock" wrote in message
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When I try to make changes after unprotecting a form and reprotecting it,
all
the previous entries disappear. What can I do to keep this from
happening.
I am using Word 2000.