how do you underline a blank space that is to be filled in?

[EZ ed]

I am trying to make forms in Word for work that have fields that need to be
filled in. How do you underline this area so that it won't move when you fill
it in?
Example: Name ______________ Date ____________

 

[lauralee08]

You can, in design mode, right-click on the field you want underlined, choose
'Font', and then pick from the 'Underline Style' dropdown menu. This will
underline the form field when empty, and also each letter that is typed in
when it is filled out, without pushing the underline away.
Or, if you just want a line to permanently stay in one place under the field
and be completely unrelated to the fill-ins, you can go to
Insert/Shapes/Lines [this path may be a bit different if you are not in
Vista], choose a line and draw it just a hair under the field, as wide as
you want, and it won't move. [If it does move, right-click the line, go to
'Format AutoShape', and in the Layout tab, choose 'In Front of Text'. It
will always be in the same position, no matter what any text or fields on the
page do.

Lauralee

 

[lauralee08]

Another thought, if it doesn't work to use the 'In Front of text' option for
a line, go back to Layout, and in the advanced area, un-check the 'Move
object with text' box.

Lauralee

 

[JoAnn Paules]

http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=253

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP052302701033.aspx

http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/guides/wordforms.pdf

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm and especially
the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman that this article links to.