HH,

          I use Legacy form fields rather than Active X ones when designing 
forms.  That being said, if absolute immobility of items relative to one 
another matters, text boxes are a far easier way to get that result than form 
fields, though one can use those with some effort.  A check-writing template is 
probably best accomplished with text boxes if ease of creation is a major 
consideration.

          I recently had a client who was enrolled in a program that required 
her to fill out client information forms, all of which were MS-Word documents, 
but none of which utilized true form fields, and were thus completely 
inaccessible.  I whipped up the same forms using form fields with descriptive 
text and help text for each field (most of which she'd probably never need, 
but) so that she could either fill the form out herself or be able to easily 
zoom through one filled out by someone else to find exactly the piece of 
information she was looking for.

Brian, off to tutor yet again (and at least I'm a day ahead of the "Great 
Storm" - we're set for a possible 18-24 plus inches of the white stuff)

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