I am newcomer to word and I need some help please. I have a document that I
have created in " word " . What I am trying to do is allow this document to
be used as a standard form. It is a report of sorts and in the report there
are areas where people will be typing in information. When I tried to do
this, as a test , everywhere I type creates more alterations to the document.
How do I make this a standard form so that I can use this report. Thanks

What you are talking about is what Word calls an "online form." Check this
in help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.

Once you have created your online form, save it as a template in the
Workgroup Templates folder for your users. Then they can create new
documents based on it using File New. For more on the different kinds of
templates, tabs on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders
see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.
"slick" wrote in message
...
I am newcomer to word and I need some help please. I have a document that I
have created in " word " . What I am trying to do is allow this document
to
be used as a standard form. It is a report of sorts and in the report
there
are areas where people will be typing in information. When I tried to do
this, as a test , everywhere I type creates more alterations to the
document.
How do I make this a standard form so that I can use this report. Thanks