tables > what am I doing wrong with the text??

[*muffin*]

I made a whole page of tables for filling in genealogy information on a
person.
MOST of the tables are working fine with the text. but for some reason I
cannot TAB over to some where the text is correct. lemme try to explain:
when I tab to one table to the next in some of them are 'black' boxes,
(which sometimes this works ok, as I can delete the whole box to put in new
information) but, most of these are in the wrong spot INSIDE the table, I
want the text to start over several spaces, to get this I have to keep
clicking the space bar to start it where I want.
in other boxes this works ok , it starts where I want (NO black box,, only
a curser bar), ALSO when I click on each individual table box it MOST DO go
to where I want it,
still other problems when I TAB over > say I have the text set at 8 (which
it says when I individually click on it, but when I TAB over to it the text
is at 12! I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong & how to fix all this
so each table is what I want in font size & position of text!
also on some tables when I Tab over I cannot SEE the curser (when I click
individually it shows up!), but it will type in correctly.
arrghhhhhhhhh.
to make all this more complicated I wanted little text boxes in each table
that did not move like the words "name" "address" "birthdate" etc. I could
only figure out I had to put individual text boxes in each table & send it
BEHIND the table so it wouldn't be affected by what I typed IN each box,
this seems to work OK, but there has to be an easier way, I could not find
where you could 'lock' in a text block (or something like that) so it would
stay... did I miss something?
please help. its driving me nuts to keep changing all this each time I type
in!.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In addition to the excellent suggestions Lene offers, it sounds like what
you're really asking for (or about) is a protected form; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[*muffin*]

I am having trouble readin your post there are a lot of extra symbols â?
and ¶ icon
so I am confused as to what exactly to do??

also, I cannot remove the text block name/address etc,, the table is dense
in information
I can send you a copy of the .doc so you can see what I mean.

 

[*muffin*]

Ok, must have been my newsreader that had al those characters..... strange.
I went to the google site to look up this thread & read what you put.
interesting about the ........(spaces)
I started deleting those.. I see a BUNCH of the ¶ end of paragraph mark.
what exactly are those ( I tired figuring it out through HELP..... but not
much help...hmm) & how do I get rid of them?
I'll play around with this to see if I can get a better document.

question though it seems like theup.down/right/left arrow keys work a heck
of a lot better than hitting TAB to go from table to table, is this supposed
to be so? or should I still work on fixing all the little things?

also, I still get the disappearing curser in some of the table fields when I
go to them (by arrow key or tab) what is this??

thanks a bunch!