Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Converting Forms to Regular Documents.
As you are working with forms in Word, there may be times when you want to convert the responses to your form back to regular text. (There are many times when regular text is much easier to work with than answers in forms.) To do the conversion, follow these steps:
Now all the fields in the document have been changed to unlinked, regular text. You can now edit the document as you normally would.
The caveat here, of course, is that all of your fields are changed to regular text. Thus, if you had other fields in the document (such as fields for dates or sequential numbers), these are also changed to regular text by this process.
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2015-10-16 08:22:23
Steve DeWeese
THANK YOU!!! After trying to insert a caption, my screen greyed out with 4 hazy vertical lines. I had to reset the page layout but could not edit. I did these steps and viola - success. Thank you for saving my document.
2014-11-07 02:04:15
Alexandre Dunlop-Brière
Thank you!!
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