MS Word application forms with underscored fields

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Do you just write your answer in the middle and delete underscores off the end to make it roughly the same length?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I just assume my manager doesn't give a fuck and move on

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Oops, you've already failed the new applicant test.

― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Hit the INSERT key on the keyboard (OVR will darken at the bottom of the MSWord frame), turn on the Underline (U), position the cursor in the underscored section and type away.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Of course! Jaq you are the awesomest.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

what if its dots instead of underscores? i just randomly delete dots byu try and make sure it falls on the same lines as the dots.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Use Jaq's instructions, but change underline style under Format menu - go to Font and change there's a box for underline style! Neat.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Heh. Go to Format|Fonts and choose ......... as the Underline Style. Or freak them out and show yr Word savvy by choosing double-wavy line, with the underline color as red.

Ha! Rrrrrobyn beat me to it!

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

It's Fun with Word! haha, I have learned all my Word tricks from 10+ years of painful trial-and-error experience, so I'm usually keen to help alleviate the suffering of others.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:07 (twenty years ago)

To double-show your Word-savvy, you could create forms out of the underlined spaces, then select "Protect document for Forms", and send it right back to them.

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

That might scare them right off, naus! rrrobyn, I'm with you on the pain and puzzlement of Word. My favorite, most often used trick (on documents received from others that I'm supposed to add to/modify) = wiping out all their totally screwed up formatting, replacing it with actual formatting that works. After years lost trying to work out the bizarro-land weirdness and unexpected side-effects of Other People's Format Attempts, this errs to the side of sanity.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Word is evil, and formatting freaks out sometimes when you send .docs to other compies. Not to mention font issues. I worked at Kinko's and .docs were the worst thing customers brought in. Something like Print Shop Deluxe or "Lil' Xtian Angels Perfect Darling Scrapbookery Family Shareware" programs were easy because we could just tell people we didn't have that software and to please go away. Whereas Word just sucks, and is ubiquitous, so I'd always have to tell people over the phone how to convert things to PDF over Adobe.com, which didn't work for some 859 page .doc with Excel inserts by an Albertson's business dude with a dial-up modem. End of bicthy paragraph.

I would just fill in the blanks and not underline or anything, but that's just me trying to protest over the dumbness of unstated expectations and my inherent hatred of Word. My other thought was to print it out and type it in with a typewriter, but that would reek of a luddite granny. So, follow your heart.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Print it off

Write on it

Stick it in internal mail

― Luddite MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 13 May 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

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MS Word application forms with underscored fields - how to fill in?