Inserting a Field

[Guest]

Using Word 2000, I'm trying to add blank, shaded fields to an existing
document/form that I can just tab through as I manually enter data into them.
The "insert field" procedure is confusing and makes me choose a category.
How do I do this?

 

[Beth Melton]

What "field" are you inserting? If you are using Word form fields using the
Forms toolbar (View/Toolbars/Forms) then you need to protect the document,
click the Lock button on the toolbar, before you can use your Tab key to
navigate form fields.

For all other fields, pressing Tab will insert a tab in the document.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you are describing 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.

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

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