Need help with a document.

[RaidenWoW]

My grandma had an old program called First Choice and I've made a template for her in Microsoft Word. It's a genealogy record.

What I want to do is to make the areas like "Date", "ID", "Gen", and everything that's on there not editable.

For example, she opens the document and has the cursor on the "date" field so she can enter a date in the blank place to the right of 'Date". Then she can press TAB and go to the blank field to the right of "ID" instead of tabbing into the "ID" field.

I basically want to lock all the text on that document so that she can fill it out like a form and not mess with the stuff already there.

How can I go about doing that?

[einstein_314]

This is really easy to do using Adobe Acrobat.....it has a form builder. And you can specify what goes in each cell (like dates) and it will format them accordingly. But you need adobe acrobat to do this...

I don't think it's possible to do in word. Maybe in excel. I know you can lock cells in excel so you can't edit them. But it probably wouldn't look right in excel.

[jcrox]

"How to create a form document that has fixed text sections"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894495

(google)

[einstein_314]

Oh wow, look at that. Neato. I tried googling...but didn't come up with anything relevant. googleFAIL.