Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Filling in Online Forms

To fill in an online form, create a new document based on the template that contains the form. Each form field is shaded in gray. The first field is shaded in deeper gray; that's where your insertion point is.

Unless you specified a short maximum length for your field, the gray area extends as you type. If the field is located in a text cell, the text simply wraps when you reach the end of a cell.

After you fill in a form field, press Tab or the down-arrow key: Both move you to the next form field in which you might make an entry. Word skips over form fields that it automatically calculates and fields in which you disable user input.

Table 25.1 shows Word's editing and navigation keys for editing forms. As you can see, ...