I'm creating a template with several text boxes. The thing I've been unable
to do is fix the text box in a specific location, even if the document is
saved as a template. Any click on the frame will allow the text box to be
dragged and resized. Is there an easy fix, or is the solution to use tables?

Unfortunately there's no way to lock the location of a Text Box against user
selection and movement. Although you can set exact row and column
measurements with tables, again you can't lock against user dragging.
However, it's not quite so easy to move row and columns accidentally, so
that's probably the best you can do.

If the user doesn't need to edit the text in the text box directly,
sometimes you can anchor to the header instead of the text - that protects
from user selection unless they deliberately open Header/Footer view.
Similarly in some situations you can prevent accidental selection by sending
graphical elements to the back layer or behind text.

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"John Cribbin" John wrote in message
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I'm creating a template with several text boxes. The thing I've been
unable
to do is fix the text box in a specific location, even if the document is
saved as a template. Any click on the frame will allow the text box to be
dragged and resized. Is there an easy fix, or is the solution to use
tables?

I wouldn't personally use a text box for any function that I could manage
another way. Tables or frames, if appropriate, are undoubtedly a better way
forward. Text boxes and their content are in the graphics layer of the
document and are treated separately from the text layer.

Having said that, checkout the advanced layout options accessible from the
format text box layout dialog.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


John Cribbin wrote:
I'm creating a template with several text boxes. The thing I've been
unable to do is fix the text box in a specific location, even if the
document is saved as a template. Any click on the frame will allow
the text box to be dragged and resized. Is there an easy fix, or is
the solution to use tables?