Although you can find many free tutorials on forms (Thanks, Suzanne
for the plug)...I also have a forms creation course. The first lesson
discusses various ways to create forms w/tables and how to customize
them...as well as formatting tricks.

That lesson just happens to be the free lesson I have as a sample to
the course. So take advantage of that fact and view that lesson at
this linksee VBA Online):

http://www.mousetrax.com/TechCourses.html#samples

You'll find lots of additional forms tutorials he

http://www.mousetrax.com/techpage.html#autoforms

And here's an article on Frames that might help, too...

Understanding Frames and Anchors in Word
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=482

Dian D. Chapman, Technical Consultant
Microsoft MVP, MOS Certified
Editor/TechTrax Ezine

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:00:01 -0700, "Mr John" Mr
wrote:

PLEASE HELP
I am a school teacher and have been asked to create/set out a new student
report document for teachers.

I have been asked to create a document which has several text boxes in but
that are fixed (i.e. in size, font, location on page, etc).
This means that the different subjects will have a text box to
enterinformation in. These boxes need to be fixed.
The amount of text a teacher can put in is controled. Teachers can not move
the text box around or make it bigger to enter more text in. The size and
style of the font is also fixed. etc etc.
I can make a text box, but when i enter text into it and I get to the bottom
of it, the box gets bigger or the text dissapears out of the text box (but
not onto the main document).

In conclusion I want to make text boxes (or is it frames?) where a teacher
will open up the template report for a child. They will see several text
boxes which I have created and they will be able to enter text into these
text boxes. The style is fixed. The text box can not be made bigger to
accept more text. Everything is fixed.

I have tried looking in the help section and can not find anything simple to
follow.
If you are able to help please provide simple, step by step instructions.

Yours gratefuly

John