create a template that will not change when I type blank spaces

[Guest]

I want to create my own lease document for my business that I can use as an
ongoing template. Would like to be able to just fill in the blanks on the
document and then print it. When I try the underlining and everything else
moves when I try to fill in the blanks on the form. How do I make the
document a unchanging document?

 

[Anne Troy]

Hi, Len. This is very simple, especially when the form is used only by you,
and you're the one who builds it. First method is less restrictive than the
second. Try either:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/easy_guided_forms_in_microsoft_word.htm
http://www.officearticles.com/word/create_a_fill-in_form_in_microsoft_word.htm
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[Stefan Blom]

Start at http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/LinesInForms.htm.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can follow the suggestions made in the other replies, but may I suggest
an alternative? Why try to have "blanks"? Yes, for a rough copy that you're
going to fill out by hand, but for one you're going to create on the
computer, why not have each lease document be an ordinary Word document that
looks as if it were created expressly for the intended purpose? The easiest
way to achieve this is to use MacroButton fields where you want to insert
text (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm). You
can use F11 to quickly go through the document and fill out each field, and
the resulting document will be a unique lease.

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

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[Charles Kenyon]

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/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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