I enclose a sample with only the first two plain text content controls.

These are placed in a borderless table. Each content control needs to be in a single cell that is fixed in height and width. The bottom border of the cell is active so it provides the underline. The reason for the fixed size is to keep the form from expanding when someone types in too much. The extra will be lost. An alternative would be to have macros that keep each entry from being too long, but I suspect that would not work for you.

You will need to adjust the cell width to exactly match what you have now for your blanks.

In each content control, I typed a single space. This is to get rid of the placeholder text so that it will be blank when printed and not typed into.

The tab key will move the person from content control to content control.

If you have drop-downs, the default choice will have to be blank if you want to be able to print it without the choice showing.

This is going to be a pain to set up.

I noted that some of your form (body) was in the Heading 1 style reformatted to look like body text. This is a very bad idea.

Create a body text style for your form. If you want Arial 12, then use that. Set it for single spacing and no space before or after. Use that Style in your table and any other text.

The document is then protected for no editing. Each content control is selected and allowed as an exception for everyone. The sample I am sending has no password.

This will NOT work in any Word version before Word 2007.

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