Creating a Locked Template Form with Underlined Fields

• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 5.1a

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.

REFERENCES

For information about how to do this in Word versions 6.0 and later, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q141990
   TITLE     : WD: How to Create an Online Form Using Form Fields