What you are describing is a protected form. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

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"Ava Denne" wrote in message
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Is there a way to proctect/lock several cells of a table, yet not the
entire
document. I have created a document with cells that text can be entered
into
and cells that I do not want modified.