Using Word 2000

I'm setting up a form to be used electronically/hand written and in several
areas need to show 3 blank lines for comments like this:
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________

The typing would start on the first line and continue down. What happens is
that the other lines get pushed down. I want the typing to be fixed on the
lines. I've tried drawing lines, using cells in a table, etc. and it always
gets pushed down.

Any way to do this or is there a better option? Thanks.

Try this. Go to Format | Borders and Shading and insert your lines there. I
hope this is helpful to you.

"tacho" wrote:

Using Word 2000

I'm setting up a form to be used electronically/hand written and in several
areas need to show 3 blank lines for comments like this:
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________

The typing would start on the first line and continue down. What happens is
that the other lines get pushed down. I want the typing to be fixed on the
lines. I've tried drawing lines, using cells in a table, etc. and it always
gets pushed down.

Any way to do this or is there a better option? Thanks.

Appreciate the quick reply!

Tried that before and it moves the line down once the typing goes off the
line and wraps. So the result is 2 or 3 lines of text with only one line
under the last sentence and the other 2 blank lines pushed down.

Any other ideas?

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"Carol" wrote:

Try this. Go to Format | Borders and Shading and insert your lines there. I
hope this is helpful to you.

"tacho" wrote:

Using Word 2000

I'm setting up a form to be used electronically/hand written and in several
areas need to show 3 blank lines for comments like this:
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________

The typing would start on the first line and continue down. What happens is
that the other lines get pushed down. I want the typing to be fixed on the
lines. I've tried drawing lines, using cells in a table, etc. and it always
gets pushed down.

Any way to do this or is there a better option? Thanks.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"tacho" wrote in message
news
Appreciate the quick reply!

Tried that before and it moves the line down once the typing goes off the
line and wraps. So the result is 2 or 3 lines of text with only one line
under the last sentence and the other 2 blank lines pushed down.

Any other ideas?

--------
"Carol" wrote:

Try this. Go to Format | Borders and Shading and insert your lines
there. I
hope this is helpful to you.

"tacho" wrote:

Using Word 2000

I'm setting up a form to be used electronically/hand written and in
several
areas need to show 3 blank lines for comments like this:
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________

The typing would start on the first line and continue down. What
happens is
that the other lines get pushed down. I want the typing to be fixed
on the
lines. I've tried drawing lines, using cells in a table, etc. and it
always
gets pushed down.

Any way to do this or is there a better option? Thanks.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

tacho wrote:
Using Word 2000

I'm setting up a form to be used electronically/hand written and in
several areas need to show 3 blank lines for comments like this:
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________

The typing would start on the first line and continue down. What
happens is that the other lines get pushed down. I want the typing
to be fixed on the lines. I've tried drawing lines, using cells in a
table, etc. and it always gets pushed down.

Any way to do this or is there a better option? Thanks.

Very good link (printed for future reference) but didn't fix my problem.

I've also tried soft returns (shift/enter) and my text will stay on the
drawed lines (good news). But it still pushes the soft returns down creating
additional blank spaces between my next area to be filled out.

I've also played around with this in a 1 column, 1 row table and if I could
stop the table from expanding (pushing blank spaces down), it would work.
But I don't see a way to set a limit.


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

tacho wrote:
Using Word 2000

I'm setting up a form to be used electronically/hand written and in
several areas need to show 3 blank lines for comments like this:
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________

The typing would start on the first line and continue down. What
happens is that the other lines get pushed down. I want the typing
to be fixed on the lines. I've tried drawing lines, using cells in a
table, etc. and it always gets pushed down.

Any way to do this or is there a better option? Thanks.

You can do this in a table cell with the row height set to an exact amount.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"tacho" wrote in message
...
Very good link (printed for future reference) but didn't fix my problem.

I've also tried soft returns (shift/enter) and my text will stay on the
drawed lines (good news). But it still pushes the soft returns down
creating
additional blank spaces between my next area to be filled out.

I've also played around with this in a 1 column, 1 row table and if I
could
stop the table from expanding (pushing blank spaces down), it would work.
But I don't see a way to set a limit.


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

tacho wrote:
Using Word 2000

I'm setting up a form to be used electronically/hand written and in
several areas need to show 3 blank lines for comments like this:
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________
__________________________________________________ ________

The typing would start on the first line and continue down. What
happens is that the other lines get pushed down. I want the typing
to be fixed on the lines. I've tried drawing lines, using cells in a
table, etc. and it always gets pushed down.

Any way to do this or is there a better option? Thanks.