Microsoft Office 2003 Problem

[Paul]

Hi all...Maybe someone can help me with this because I am about to pull my
hair out.

O.K. I have a Word Doc that I need to do for my job. It is an 11 page
biographical affidavit that will be e-mailed to all employees. When they
receive it, they will open it up on their computer and fill it out using
their computer. This doc has about 75 questions ranging from name and
address to name of last job's supervisor etc. After each question I made a
line they can type their answer on. I created the line by holding down the
Ctrl key and then holding down the "minus" key until the line was long
enough. The problem is this..when they click onto the line and start to
type, the line disappears. There are over 75 places where these questions
are asked and I have placed these "lines". Is there any way I can easily
fix this or do I have to do it all over again? I can't tell you how many
times over the years I have received this type of form in an e-mail and when
I opened it I just clicked on the line and typed in the answer and then
clicked or tabbed on the next line and typed that answer and the line never
moved or disappeared. I have already been to the following websites which
weren't much help. word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms and
word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

 

[anon k]

Hi all...Maybe someone can help me with this because I am about to pull my
hair out.

O.K. I have a Word Doc that I need to do for my job. It is an 11 page
biographical affidavit that will be e-mailed to all employees. When they
receive it, they will open it up on their computer and fill it out using
their computer. This doc has about 75 questions ranging from name and
address to name of last job's supervisor etc. After each question I made a
line they can type their answer on. I created the line by holding down the
Ctrl key and then holding down the "minus" key until the line was long
enough. The problem is this..when they click onto the line and start to
type, the line disappears. There are over 75 places where these questions
are asked and I have placed these "lines". Is there any way I can easily
fix this or do I have to do it all over again? I can't tell you how many
times over the years I have received this type of form in an e-mail and when
I opened it I just clicked on the line and typed in the answer and then
clicked or tabbed on the next line and typed that answer and the line never
moved or disappeared. I have already been to the following websites which
weren't much help. word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms and
word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

Five possible solutions:

1. Use tables, and set the borders of the response cells to look underlined.

2. Use underlining! Set a right tab with an underline leader at the
right margin, and put a few spaces before it. Make sure that the whole
lot is underlined. Enforce this with an underlined paragraph style for
the response.

3. Use graphic rules instead of text lines.

4. Tell respondents to maintain the formatting. Incorrectly filled-in
forms will be automatically rejected, and salary payments not processed
until the form is properly submitted.

5. Make a web form instead, and use Word to automate the processing of
the responses (like a mail merge) so that whatever has to be underlined
or otherwise set off by formatting, will be consistently handled.