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Originally Posted by brettt777
I have several .docx files that I regularly use at work. They have various lines and boxes for information entry. When I perform the function that uses these documents, I would like to simply type the information on the lines and in the boxes instead of handwriting everything to make it look more professional, etc. When I type a date or other data on a line, it interrupts that line and shifts everything else out of line as I type. Is there a way to prevent this from happening, i.e. a way to "lock" the document format so I can just type over it, so to speak?
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There are several ways to do this, the simplest being putting your entry points in a table with bottom cell borders instead of underlining and with fixed cell size. You may want to be using legacy form fields rather than content controls for this with a locked form.
See the Dian Chapman articles linked in my
Forms page.