They used the Forms toolbar to create fill-in areas. Then they
protected the document. There is a series of tutorials which should
help get you started.

Go to this page - about half way down, look for the series called
"Please Fill Out This Form"
http://www.mousetrax.com/TechPage.html#autoforms - pay particular
attention to Parts 1 through 4. You can skip 5 until you decide you
want to take the answers and populate a database.

Have Fun!

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Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"

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"Dan" wrote in message
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I want to create a word document where i want only certain areas to
be allowed to edit. Like a form where i would have a line that said
Name and then next to it will be a gray highlighted area that the
user can write in and not be able to change anything else. How do i
do this? I seen this in some other word docs but cant figure out how
they do it.

tia