Originally Posted by gmayor

If you save the incomplete document as a template from which new documents are created, each new document would start with the text boxes cleared.


You would save a lot of trouble for the future if you replaced the text boxes, which appear to be graphical shapes, with rich text content controls and the dropdown lists with listbox content controls. These are both easier to work with and easier to extract data from. Insert Content Control Add-In will help with the change.