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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"StaceyStatistics" wrote in
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I'm creating a template (form) to enter information - and would like to be
able to tab over the cells that I won't be typing in--so I go directly to
the
space that needs the information entered. I would like the cells with
text
on the original template to be protected so they can't be typed over.
I've
created the template in Word, Microsoft Office edition 2003 (teacher
student
version)