Microsoft KB Archive/60128

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SUMMARY
The following procedures allow information to be entered into a template form in Microsoft Word for the Macintosh without modifying the template form.

When creating a template form document, the space for user-entered information should be identified by a series of symbols -- for example, ****. To have an entry underlined, select the series of symbols and format them as underlined.

To enter information into the form, use the Find command to scroll through the document:


 * 1) Position the insertion point at the beginning of the document.
 * 2) From the Utilities menu, choose Find.
 * 3) Enter the information field indicator, ****, in the Find What box. When the first match is found, click in the document and enter the desired information.
 * 4) Press COMMAND+OPTION+A after completing step 3 to find the next occurrence of an entry field.

MORE INFORMATION
If the document has been locked, Word will prompt you to save it with a new name when you try to close it.

After the document is saved, do the following to prevent modification to the designated form document:


 * 1) From the File menu, choose Quit.
 * 2) Select the document by clicking it once.
 * 3) From the File menu, choose Get Info.
 * 4) Select Locked in the upper-right corner of the Get Info dialog box.