The cells expanded to accomodate my changes. I could put in as many characters as I wanted, and was not limited to what I had specified in the template. I typed in the text form fields in the cells.
Then I tried to over-ride the original locked condition and there was no problem.
Next, I exited that test.doc, and opened a new, blank page based on the normal.dot template, which is the default, of course.įinally, I chose Insert/File and inserted the test.doc file that had been made to simulate a form. This was the condition noted by Krashed Kris. I could not over-ride the locked condition, nor could I put more characters into the form fields than I had specified in the template, and I could not modify the structure of the table. Next, I opened a new (blank) document using the newly made, locked template. I made a test template with a table with multiple rows and columns, inserted some form fields into some of the cells, locked the template and then saved it. I have verified the procedure you posted, as follows:
