You can unlock the document and lock the form fields before the merge. If
you need to relock the document as a form you would need to unlock the form
fields and relock using a macro (before Word 2003). Note that Ref fields and
calculation fields using your form field results may not work because the
bookmarks can only refer to one set of form fields.

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.

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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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I have created a form template document that has both checkbox and text
form
fields. When I merge this document the check boxes come across, but the
text
fields disappear. Does anyone know if this is normal and if it is, is
there
a fix so I can get my text fields back?