Click anywhere on the Word document. On the menu bar, click the Insert tab. In the Text group, click the Quick Parts button. Then select Field from the drop-down menu. A Field dialog box will appear.

Create a text form field that lets you enter text once and have it appear automatically elsewhere in the document, such as the date shown in the file's header. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Protecting data in a Word table isn’t as simple as turning a protection feature on, but it’s possible using Text Form Field controls. Protecting specific cells in an Excel sheet is easy. Protecting ...

When you use drop box form fields in Microsoft Word, they may contain any variety of text and numbers to choose from. If you need to perform a calculation using data from the drop boxes, you need to ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...