Without seeing the document, I can't comment on what your employer might be calling a text field. There are multiple possibilities, many of which have nothing to do with Word nomenclature.

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Paul Edstein
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Neither can I -- i was using libreoffice, with a template that they sent me. I tried to open the document that had the problem in Libreoffice, but I couldn't do it. I got some kind of an error message about the encryption not being able to be used in os X (I was writing the doc in OS X, because my word 2003 doesnt allow me to change colors for the document, only white text on blue background, and I can get other colors that don't hurt my eyes with libreoffice.)

Anyway what she told me that on a certain page she would click in the document and the rest of the doc would be highlighted. She called that a text field, but i'm not sure what she means by that. I didn't do anything to the template that was given me. So i'm not sure if there's a problem with Libreoffice, Libreoffice for mac, or what. I did download libreoffice for windows. But I haven't sent any files made from that yet.

With documents converted from another program, there are even more possibilities. Do upload an example document which we can have a look at.

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Stefan Blom
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