How do I convert a series of underscores to a fill in field?

[Guest]

I have a Word document where a series of underscore characters was used to
create "blanks" to be filled in when the document is printed.

I would like to convert to a fill-in form but there seems to be no way to
replace the underscores with a text field of equal length with a "frame"
consisting of a single line at the bottom.

Everything I have tried completely destroys the formatting / layout.

I cannot believe that no one has run across this before and that it should
be so difficult as people must have been converting old "print, fill out and
sign" forms to "fill in, print and sign" forms for some time now.

Help!

 

[Charles Kenyon]

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm. If you need
other text to not shift in response to the length of your responses, it
needs to be in a fixed-size holder such as a frame or a fixed-size table
cell.

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.

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


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