Jay has given you answers to your specific questions. What you are talking
about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this in help. 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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"Sandy" wrote in message
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I have users using word97 through word XP.

I need to create a form template with underlined fields that are the width
of the page, not just the width of the typing the user enters. The old
forms
were printed forms with underlines across the page to mark the "fill-in"
areas and they want the new forms to look the same in case they choose to
print them instead of fill them in, in Word. How do you format a field so
that it will have an underline across the page. I have a few fields that
are
specifically supposed to be 2 or 3 lines long as well....with underlines
across each line.....help please.

Thanks in advance, Sandy.