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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default Text box in a Word template

You can type default text into a text form field. Double-click on the field
to open the Text Form Field Options dialog and type the desired default
text.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stanley" wrote in message
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I want to insert a text box from the forms toolbar into a template (.dot)
file. When I do this, I unprotect my document and add the text field. Then
I
protect the document again.
This is OK execept there is nothing to indicate to the user what to type
into that field; it is just blank until the user clicks there.
I would like to provide the user with some indication of what to type in
the field-- for example [enter date here]. Once he type there the message
should get replaced with what he types.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Stanley