Help with tables in forms in Word

[Jaie]

Forgive me in advance - I can't figure out how to word this very
clearly.

I'm creating a form to act as an incident log in Word. I've got a
table set up, with seven columns. We'd like to have a maximum of 40
rows per page, and I think I've even got that figured out.

The final column of each row is meant to be an area for notes, which
might well go beyond the space alloted for them on one line and word
wrap on to the next line, still within the same cell. That would
normally be fine, but in this case the client wants each additional
line of the notes field to be on a new row .... without repeating the
fields in the first six columns of that row. Put another way, each
additional line in the notes field should be in its own row, or at
least appear to be, again with a total of not more than 40 rows per
page. (I suppose the text could just be underlined from one side of
the column to the other.)

HELP! I'm not sure this is possible. I'm also not sure if I've
explained this well enough for you to understand what I mean.

If anyone has ANY ideas about how to do this, I'm all ears! We can
junk what we have now and start over if we need to.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I understand what you're asking, but please tell your client that basically
it won't work. What you're asking is to wrap text from one table cell to the
cell below it. There is NO way to do this short of entering the text and
then cutting and pasting bits of it to subsequent rows. You can set each row
to an exact height in order to keep the number of rows uniform, and then
users can type till they are blue in the face without exceeding the single
line (I'm guessing) allotted for comments; the rest will just disappear
below the bottom of the cell. But that's not much help.