I made a form in Microsoft WORD 2003 that is fill-able and need to email the form out to 183 DIFFERENT organization with personal data from each organization in their form. For this reason, I created the form, then did a Mail Merge that had the data I NEEDED. When the merge was complete, all of my Text Form Fields had been deleted. The blanks are still there but the Text Form Fields are not. I would like to be able to lock the document so that they will not be able to type in the question areas but if I lock it without the text form fields, they can't type anything at all.

I tried locking the document before I did the merge in a hope that it would keep the form fields there, but Word would not allow me to merge the document if it was LOCKED. I would really enjoy not having to go through 183 documents and add form fields in all the spots that got erased. I guess I could go through 183 copies of the same document and type the data by hand, but I am really HOPING there is a way to get mail merge to put my information in the document without removing my text form fields.
Alright, well after a full day of searching, I finally found my own answer. It isn't possible in Word itself but a couple macros have been written to work around this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286841

or

http://www.gmayor.com/Form_Fields_and_Mail_Merge.htm