Follow Dian's advice. Do not unprotect and reprotect the document. I would say your best bet would be to write your status in another file and copy and paste it to the form instead of copying and pasting within the form. I have very little experience with Word 2000, I went straight from 97 to XP. When 2000 came out, I was given a copy of PPT 2000 as a gift. As I didn't need the rest of the suite in 2000, I never bought it. Ask me about Word XP, I can answer. Ask me about 2000, I can't. I am sorry for confusing the issue. ************************************************************* 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, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************