See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...lfResetOff.htm.

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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"Ken" wrote in message
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Hi, I hope you all are doing well.

After creating a template using the forms toolbar text block and
protecting
it as a form, what do you do to prevent from losing data typed into the
text
block if you have to unprotect and the reprotect the form. For example, I
have a template made from the forms text field. When completing the form
derived from the template, I found I mispelled some of the text in the
form.
When I unprotect the form to make the change and reprotect the form the
data
I typed in the text fields disappears.

Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

TIA.