[Christy Longgrear]

This is my first post. I hope I've gotten my question in the proper area.

I'm somewhere between beginner and intermediate working with forms and the
following is a problem I'm having with some text form fields and using style
refs in headers.

I have a proposal form with 5 separate sections. Three of the 5 sections
are protected. We have a format for our proposals where we want the scope of
work centered in the header then on a second line in the header we have the
Project Name left aligned and then the Proposal number right aligned. Again,
all this information is reflected in the header.

I've tried to accomplish this via 2 different methods.

It is important to note that one of the unprotected sections in this
document is the body of the letter (we do a letter format for all our
proposals due to the descriptive nature of our work, environmental
consulting). Where I'm running into a problem is when the unprotected body
portion of this forms runs onto a 2nd page Word does not adopt the tab
settings of the first page of the document for the second page and also it
appears that an additional carriage return is causing the 2nd line of the
header to go to a third line. I have searched for a solution for universally
setting the header tab stops (so that additional pages created will adopt the
same header format/style). It is worth mentioning that I think the problem
I have is that for whatever reason the left aligned ANYTHING in the header
seems to arbitrarily add a carriage return. You will note the similarity
with having the same problem using a table as described below.

The second method I tried to use was by placing a table in the header
instead of using the tab stops. For whatever reason the cell that is aligned
for the left aligned information inserts a square object (ASCII for carriage
return I think) immediately following the last character in the header. This
only seems to happen in the cell that is left aligning.

Again, ultimately, I believe the problem is somehow related to a carriage
return being always automatically entered for anything that is left aligned
in the header.

Anyone got any ideas on how to prevent this from happening?