I have no practical experience with VBA, or even VB, but I hope I will
sound like I know what I'm talking about.

I have an Online Form in Word 97. The document is protected, and I have
set length limits on the number of characters and format restrictions in
each of the fields.

When the user presses ENTER in any of the form fields, it adds a
paragraph to my document, and screws up the form layout. I want to
prevent this.

I went to this web page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q187985/
...and I implemented the macros. Great! Now the ENTER key just moves to
the next field... BUT The text that is left behind in my text form field
 does not adhere to the format that I set on the field! i.e., I type a
name in all lowercase, press ENTER, and it stays lowercase instead of
being converted to title case.

My guess is that the command that selects the next field in the
EnterkeyMacro does not allow the built-in formatting routine to run when
exiting the form field.

Is there some way to call the built-in formatting function, and have it
run based off of what is set in the text form field properties?

The whole reason for this is just so the user doesn't distort the layout
of the form. I played around with creating the form fields inside the
cells of a table, but I would not figure out how to make the table
immutable. Is there some property hidden in a menu somewhere that does
it? Every time I tried, the form field would insert a line when the user
pressed ENTER, and the table just stretched to accomodate it.

Does anyone have a solution to either of these problems? Thanks for your
consideration.