If this is something for future regular use, I would paste into a new document as plain text and do the formatting in the new document.


Word Forms provided by courts and other government agencies are often formatted abysmally. They are also often conversions from a scanned document or another Word processor. When printed without any typing in them, they look fine but the minute you start typing in the blanks, all sorts of things go awry.


Failing that, I will save the form in jpg format and put it behind text. Then I will use a borderless table to position what I type, using Content Controls.