table with cells that correspond to boxes in a form to be filled out

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MS Word 2000 Creating a Table to use as template to fill out a form

At the IRS website there is a form entitled SS4 which I want to fill out by:

1. creating a table with cells positioned in such a way that they will
coincide with the boxes that I need to fill in form SS4
2. The table will become a merge document that will be printed by merging
data from Access 2000 and the paper to be used will be blank SS4 forms.

My big question is: does anyone have an easy way of doing this? Thank you
 
Hi L.,

No direct, simple way of doing this for the reason that you can't execute mail
merge with a document protected as a form. If that is not a factor, then the
simplest way to proceed would be to get hold of a printed version of the form
and SCAN it. Insert that as a graphic in the document's header/footer area and
position it "behind the text". Now you can see exactly where the boxes need to
be positioned.

When everything is set up, delete the graphic.
MS Word 2000 Creating a Table to use as template to fill out a form

At the IRS website there is a form entitled SS4 which I want to fill out by:

1. creating a table with cells positioned in such a way that they will
coincide with the boxes that I need to fill in form SS4
2. The table will become a merge document that will be printed by merging
data from Access 2000 and the paper to be used will be blank SS4 forms.

My big question is: does anyone have an easy way of doing this?
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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