I am a student and we've been given a Word document to use as 'interactive' - like a form to fill in.

I have sometimes to select whole portions to 'strike through' because they are not wanted.

When I try to do that sometimes a whole other section gets greyed out with the piece I'm trying to select.

How can I stop that?

I did think maybe 'allowing edits' was the problem. Initially when we open the document I can't save it to a different name which would make it 'one use' only so I click the 'allow edits' bar up the top.


I figure maybe that is my problem. I've brought it on myself. But I can't see how to set the document to no edits again.


And anyway that doesn't seem to be right - I just tried it with the original and if I don't switch off 'no edit' then I can't write anything on it.


So I guess it boils down to: Can a word doc be used as a Form like our school is trying to get us to do?