What you are describing is a protect 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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"Ray Pendergast" wrote in message
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I am not sure what to call this feature, so I don't know what to read up
on
in the Index. I've seen it done before. A form created in Word is
looking
for data to be entered into certain fields. Those fields contain grey
blocks
of circles. When you hit tab, the cursor jumps to the next block. The
block
is replaced, never to come back again, with whatever you type. What
function
of Word am I describing?