Yo,

I have this Word doc I created (and I know nothing about Word, to be used as an invoice. Problem is all the fields are active and the form gets messed up every time the computer illiterate user tries to make some inputs.

I've googled around enough to know that CMD/CTRL+F11 is supposed to lock fields so this wont happen, but on my system (Mac/Office 2008) it's just not working. I've messed with all the OS and Word preferences and that keyboard shortcut just doesn't do a thing, and I can't find any other way to do it.

Anyone experienced in this locking down a form or template (or whatever this needs to be) able to take a look at this for me? I'd email it to ya. I'm guessing that if the keyboard shortcut were working this would be 10-15 mins of work; but what do I know, it's been screwing me up for days.

i'm not so great at this stuff myself, but I find that sometimes I can fix a problem by changing how i'm viewing a document in the lower left boxes (i.e. normal, on-line, outline, etc). also sometimes hitting save as and saving the document in another format.

good luck man. sometimes computers hate us.

[Edited by - marv on 09-26-2009 06:28 AM]

Simple fix would be to hit the <Insert> key. This will toggle your input to overwrite and it won't move the fields.