text below blank line

[Guest]

I am preparing a generic agreement which contains blanks to be filled in and
want to put below the blank line text that will describe what information is
supposed to be filled in on the line. How do you do it without lousing up
the line spacing of the document as a whole? I know I've seen agreements
done that way.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It is *extremely* finicking and probably not worth the effort. You have two
choices:

1. Create an extra line for the text below the blanks, placed using tabs,
and adjust the line spacing of all lines accordingly.

2. Put the text in text boxes with In Front of Text wrapping.

If the form is going to be filled in on the computer, then all you need is
something to tell people what goes on the line (often it's obvious anyway).
This can be accomplished with MacroButton fields that say, for example,
"[Click here and type name]." You've probably seen these in some of the
templates that ship with Word, such as the fax cover sheets. For
instructions on creating these extremely simple fields (no macros involved,
despite the name), see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/UsingMacroButton.htm

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

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