forms

is there a way I can create a form in word for people to fill out then, put a
pre printed form into the printer and just have it print the areas they
filled in. we have pre printed work orders and I would like to make the form
up in word so the guys can fill it out and use spell check. I have one now I
set the margins on the sheet to get the text where it needs to be on the
sheet it works good but I would like to set up the whole form.
thank you
--
steve

Why not put a blank piece of paper in the printer and print the whole thing?


"steve" wrote in message
...
is there a way I can create a form in word for people to fill out then,
put a
pre printed form into the printer and just have it print the areas they
filled in. we have pre printed work orders and I would like to make the
form
up in word so the guys can fill it out and use spell check. I have one now
I
set the margins on the sheet to get the text where it needs to be on the
sheet it works good but I would like to set up the whole form.
thank you
--
steve

That would be nice but the office sends out the workorders and then we have
to fill them out when the job is complete and hand them back into the office.
each sheet has a section to type in what was done on the job. the rest of the
sheet is office numbers and discriptions that change with each sheet thats
printed out.
thaks
steve

"Jezebel" wrote:

Why not put a blank piece of paper in the printer and print the whole thing?


"steve" wrote in message
...
is there a way I can create a form in word for people to fill out then,
put a
pre printed form into the printer and just have it print the areas they
filled in. we have pre printed work orders and I would like to make the
form
up in word so the guys can fill it out and use spell check. I have one now
I
set the margins on the sheet to get the text where it needs to be on the
sheet it works good but I would like to set up the whole form.
thank you
--
steve

You're going to spend a _lot_ of time trying to get a particular printer
(and printer driver) to put things on the page where you want them. And then
when you change printers or software, it will need to be adjusted. How about
printing "see attached" in the space provided and then typing an attachment
on a blank page, perhaps with a reference number?
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"steve" wrote in message
...
That would be nice but the office sends out the workorders and then we
have
to fill them out when the job is complete and hand them back into the
office.
each sheet has a section to type in what was done on the job. the rest of
the
sheet is office numbers and discriptions that change with each sheet thats
printed out.
thaks
steve

"Jezebel" wrote:

Why not put a blank piece of paper in the printer and print the whole
thing?


"steve" wrote in message
...
is there a way I can create a form in word for people to fill out then,
put a
pre printed form into the printer and just have it print the areas they
filled in. we have pre printed work orders and I would like to make the
form
up in word so the guys can fill it out and use spell check. I have one
now
I
set the margins on the sheet to get the text where it needs to be on
the
sheet it works good but I would like to set up the whole form.
thank you
--
steve

Thanks all for the help.
for now I just set the header and footer to match the area we need to fill
in and it seems to work, maybe some day they will let us just fill them out
online and save some paper.
Thanks again
Steve

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

You're going to spend a _lot_ of time trying to get a particular printer
(and printer driver) to put things on the page where you want them. And then
when you change printers or software, it will need to be adjusted. How about
printing "see attached" in the space provided and then typing an attachment
on a blank page, perhaps with a reference number?
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"steve" wrote in message
...
That would be nice but the office sends out the workorders and then we
have
to fill them out when the job is complete and hand them back into the
office.
each sheet has a section to type in what was done on the job. the rest of
the
sheet is office numbers and discriptions that change with each sheet thats
printed out.
thaks
steve

"Jezebel" wrote:

Why not put a blank piece of paper in the printer and print the whole
thing?


"steve" wrote in message
...
is there a way I can create a form in word for people to fill out then,
put a
pre printed form into the printer and just have it print the areas they
filled in. we have pre printed work orders and I would like to make the
form
up in word so the guys can fill it out and use spell check. I have one
now
I
set the margins on the sheet to get the text where it needs to be on
the
sheet it works good but I would like to set up the whole form.
thank you
--
steve