Hello,

I created a form in Word 2010, protected it and made a template out of it. Everything worked as expected.

I then copied the template and original document (from which I made this template) to a thumb drive, brought it to my office, placed the template in the appropriate location (...roaming...MS...templates) and when I create a NEW document from this template, I cannot click in the form fields, and cannot move the cursor from the initial location.

In short, at home I can fill form fields, tab between fields, and the placeholder text disappears as I type.

In the office, I cannot do any of the above. The cursor simply blinks in front of the first character.

Can anyone help me out here? I tried this on two different computers at the office with the same result.

When you copied to the thumb drive or from it, were you using Word or Windows? Word behaves very rudely when using thumb drives or other mobile media.

I copied using the Windows interface after saving the document and after saving the document as a template,

The copied files have probably been damaged. Replace them with new copies of your original files.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

I tried several times... no good. I've attached the template if you guys wouldn't mind having a look. I'm attaching this from my home office computer, the one from which I created the form in the first place. I just now checked to see if it works still from my home PC, and it does.

Attached Files

Job Analysis Sheet.zip (64.8 KB, 13 views)

You have the template protected for forms with a password.

The template you attached is a .dotx file. It, by its structure, cannot retain macros.

When I create a new document based on the template, I am initially in the first content control. With the tab key, I move from field to field. With Shift-Tab I return to the previous field.

Is this not what you experience?

SteamBC please advise if you got it to work - I'm having a similar problem except I'm putting my .docx file (based on a .dotm template) on a webserver and the macros dont run when Word document opened off the webserver. I can navigate between textboxes but my macros dont work.
Regards.