Most likely Word is waiting for you to respond to a prompt just below the Ribbon.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Are your referring to the "Allow Editing" and "Enable Macros"? If so, I chose to clicked "Enable Editing" then "Enable Content" to activate Macros.

Document then opens with only "File, Tools, View". Unable to tab, select View Edit Document". Now, able to tab through but when I get to the last form field in the table it skips to the next form field, does not add a new rule as I would expect.

Anything else you would suggest I try?

Thanks,
Gail