drawing a line I can type on later

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I'm creating a form. I want it to have several "fill-in-the-blank" lines
(i.e., Name:_____________, Address ____________), but I want to be able to
save the form for multiple future uses, and be able to just go in & type text
on the lines without affecting the layout of the form as it was saved.
 
On the FORMS toolbar, press the Text Form Field button to insert a form
field. Place cursor in the field just created (it probably will be grey) and
press the Underline button on FORMAT toolbar to underline the form field. Do
this for every field you want to add. There is a button called Form Field
Shading that will remove the grey background from the form fields if you
don't like they grey background. When your done press the Protect Form button
 
Thank you! You know what though? I tried it, and it worked just like you
said, except when I then go in & attempt to type on a line, every letter I
type causes the form field to be extended one space to the right. So instead
of simply filling in the line that's already there, the text creates "more
line" as I type, and everything else on the page (that line of the page) gets
shifted to the right as well.

Hmmmm.
 
Did you pres the Protect Form. That makes the documument so only the form
fieds are input capable
 
Yes, I pressed the Protect Form. It did make it so only the form fields are
input capable, but the form fields actually expanded one space for every
letter typed, thus shifting everything over to the right. Ugh.
 
Text form fields are no different in that respect than typing regular text.
To prevent moving the following text, either put the form fields into a
table (or several tables) or separate the fields from the following text
with tabs (set a tab stop where the following text should begin). Tables are
better, because a tab will jump to the next tab stop after the one you
intended if the field gets too wide.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm for some help
with this.
 
I have a related question - I have created a form with underlining as
described in this thread and it works well. However, some of the people
using this form will likely print it out rather than filling it out
electronically. How can I create an underline all the way across the page
when it prints so that some one can "fill-in-the-blank" manually? Right now
when I print, it only gives me an underline for the length of the blank text
form field box.

Thanks for any help!
 
Put the text form field in a table cell with a bottom border; make the table
cell the width of the page (or whatever's left of it).

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

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Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Put the text form field in a table cell with a bottom border; make the table
cell the width of the page (or whatever's left of it).

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

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I use the line draw on the drawing toolbar. Simply type a word and place the line underneath. You can then type above the line and it prints out as well. Very simple.
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I use the line draw on the drawing toolbar. Simply type a word and place the
line underneath. You can then type above the line and it prints out as well.
Very simple.
 
Placement of the line can be tricky, and you have to be sure it's anchored
to the paragraph you're going to be typing in so that it doesn't get out of
place if you edit text above it. That is, however, one of the methods
offered at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm

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

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For the following example:

_____have hereunto set _____ hand(s) and seals(s) this ___ day of ____

Click on Font Style and Font Size to use.
Click View, Toolbars, Forms.
Click Table, Insert, Table of 7 columns, 1 row. OK.
Type text where it goes.
Where the blank lines will go, click Text Form Field (ab on Form Field Tool
Bar)
Move the cell borders as appropriate (leaving enough space for whatever goes
there).
Click the a in a square on the Form Field toolbar if you want to remove
the form field shading
Click in first cell where a line is wanted.
Click Format, Borders and Shading,
Click Apply to Cell (bottom right) and click on unwanted borders to remove
them, leaving only underline. Click OK.
Click in second cell, click Borders and Shading and click None to remove all
four borders. Click OK.
Continue the process to complete all cells in the line.
Lock the form (padlock icon on the Forms toolbar). Then you can type in the
form fields in the document, tabbing from each to the next.

(Remember to unlock the form to do other editing.)
 

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