Baldy

Ok, the help function in ms word is useless. I make a form to use, with blank lines to write on. Instead of printing it out and writing on the lines, I want to be able to type the stuff in. It sucks to position the cursor just right, type what I want, underline the text, then delete the extra lines that were there before.



Anyways, I want it to stay as a sort of form, where I can just tab between fields and enter my info. Can I do that?

Amy

Well i'm not sure what your doing....



I say if you want boxes use excell. In excell you can format the boxes to underline what text you type so each cell is the same format.



An easy funciton in Word if you want boxes is to use the insert button select table then you can manipulate the widths of the columns and tab between them. Or you can set the margins at the top and tab between locations that you set.



What are you trying to do maybe I can just format a document for you and email it to you blank to fill in.



Amy





This is the crap I do every day...

Baldy

Here's the form I'm using. I just want to be able to have all those words fixed, and me be able to just tab to the next field.

Amy

Gotcha -- this is only worth it if it's a saved and frequently used doc. You will need to set your tabs. By this I mean at the top of your word doc there is a ruler all the way on teh left there is a little box with a symbol in it that looks like a backward capital L - if you click on it it will look like and L -- what this does is when placed on the ruler it will align what you type to the left or right of where it is located - you have to tab to get to it to make it work right -- The tab key will take you directly to it -- then turn on your overwrite function so as you type your words will stay lined up and overwrite the line you are on - if you want to maintain the line you will have to turn on underline - which is abutton on top of the screen just a letter with a line under it. When using these set tabs in a premade document you will have to insert them on each line you want them on - for example go to the line set the tab and then go to the next line and you will have to set another.



Hope this makes sense if not let me know or PM for my number and I can walk you through it.



But like I said you have to do each line so if this is a one time document it may be easier to just delete and type in and underline.



Amy



ohh and search in MS help for setting tabs - they may have a better description of it.

Amy

Do you have PDF? There is a way in PDF that may make it really easy.