Hello and thank you in advance i know unfortunately this has probably been covered many times.. but i'm pushing a deadline, at work, and not time to shuffle through the archives. That being said i hope it's real simple and i'm just suffering a case of the monday morning brain farts ;) What i need or i'm trying to do.. is have a word doc template (2003) that is basically a form letter. boiler plate text with a few key words fields that change one to the next. this will be done manually it's pretty much name/address that is changed. i have a template or a couple of them actually that i downloaded from MS. they have fields listed but i can't seem to prevent or tab between the fields i want to change and the boiler plate text. i click on the "field" it highlights and i can type.. hit enter or tab to go to the next field it just adds a tab or paragraph mark.. i know i did this years ago.. I just can't remember what i'm doing wrong. any help would be appreciated.. thanks Ohtechie ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************