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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"GrapeLust" wrote in message
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I have made some great templates from a word document for my invoicing and
estimates.I no longer wish to handwrite on the printed documents.I would
like
to able to convert these to a template that I can type on without changing
the documents layout.Almost like a read only but with the ability to type
in
the blank spaces the customers information.Thanks in advance Scott C.