Hi all...Maybe someone can help me with this because I am about to pull my
hair out.

O.K. I have a Word Doc that I need to do for my job. It is an 11 page
biographical affidavit that will be e-mailed to all employees. When they
receive it, they will open it up on their computer and fill it out using
their computer. This doc has about 75 questions ranging from name and
address to name of last job's supervisor etc. After each question I made a
line they can type their answer on. I created the line by holding down the
Ctrl key and then holding down the "minus" key until the line was long
enough. The problem is this..when they click onto the line and start to
type, the line disappears. There are over 75 places where these questions
are asked and I have placed these "lines". Is there any way I can easily
fix this or do I have to do it all over again? I can't tell you how many
times over the years I have received this type of form in an e-mail and when
I opened it I just clicked on the line and typed in the answer and then
clicked or tabbed on the next line and typed that answer and the line never
moved or disappeared. I have already been to the following websites which
weren't much help. word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms and
word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

The forms you received in email were presumably correctly created protected
forms. To get your form to work the same way, you will have to use the same
methods: text form fields in table cells with a bottom border.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Paul" wrote in message
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Hi all...Maybe someone can help me with this because I am about to pull my
hair out.

O.K. I have a Word Doc that I need to do for my job. It is an 11 page
biographical affidavit that will be e-mailed to all employees. When they
receive it, they will open it up on their computer and fill it out using
their computer. This doc has about 75 questions ranging from name and
address to name of last job's supervisor etc. After each question I made
a
line they can type their answer on. I created the line by holding down
the
Ctrl key and then holding down the "minus" key until the line was long
enough. The problem is this..when they click onto the line and start to
type, the line disappears. There are over 75 places where these questions
are asked and I have placed these "lines". Is there any way I can easily
fix this or do I have to do it all over again? I can't tell you how many
times over the years I have received this type of form in an e-mail and
when
I opened it I just clicked on the line and typed in the answer and then
clicked or tabbed on the next line and typed that answer and the line
never
moved or disappeared. I have already been to the following websites which
weren't much help. word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms and
word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul