Word does indeed execute FILLIN and ASK fields in the sequence they appear
in the text, not the sequence you entered them.

There are a few things you could do to workaround this. The closest to what
you are doing would be to use ASK fields instead of FILLIN fields in the
sequence you want at the beginning of the document. Each ASK field put the
value the user enters into a "bookmark" whose name you specify in the ASK
field. You can then use that value in the place where you want it using a
REF field.
 e.g.

{ ASK bmPlaintiff "Plantiff name" }

{ REF bmPlaintiff }

--
Peter Jamieson - Word MVP
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org/