Use a table with appropriately bordered cells and set the cell sizes to
fixed dimensions. The finished result can have the appearance of text boxes
and you will not have the problems associated with them.
Text boxes will only cause you grief.
You will probably want to put form fields in the cells to make the form
teacher proof.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Mr John wrote:
PLEASE HELP
I am a school teacher and have been asked to create/set out a new
student report document for teachers.

I have been asked to create a document which has several text boxes
in but that are fixed (i.e. in size, font, location on page, etc).
This means that the different subjects will have a text box to
enterinformation in. These boxes need to be fixed.
The amount of text a teacher can put in is controled. Teachers can
not move the text box around or make it bigger to enter more text in.
The size and style of the font is also fixed. etc etc.
I can make a text box, but when i enter text into it and I get to the
bottom of it, the box gets bigger or the text dissapears out of the
text box (but not onto the main document).

In conclusion I want to make text boxes (or is it frames?) where a
teacher will open up the template report for a child. They will see
several text boxes which I have created and they will be able to
enter text into these text boxes. The style is fixed. The text box
can not be made bigger to accept more text. Everything is fixed.

I have tried looking in the help section and can not find anything
simple to follow.
If you are able to help please provide simple, step by step
instructions.

Yours gratefuly

John