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So would you say PDF is the recommended and best supported template format? Would I need a paid licensed version of Adobe pdf software to make the templates or is there some alternative you can recommend for creating the template?

Can you send me or point me to an example of a docx file with text anchoring? I did some googling on word text anchoring and it seems there are a lot of setting to consider and I'm not sure what would work best with esign software, so I'm looking for an example of best practices.

I see where some of the confusion is. When you said text anchoring you are referring to an esignlive API capability to do absolute positioning of input boxes. I thought you were referring to the microsoft word functionality also called text anchoring. I do not like the idea of using absolute positioning to place the text inputs on the form because any time the template is modified we would then need to do a bunch of trial and error to find the right position. In your response above you mention "relative locations to text already within the document or you could put small, background-colored text within your document at the locations you want your fields". I don't think either of these is being done in the cleaning_contract.docx or the samples you provided links to. Am I missing something?

I think I understand a little better now but in your text anchor example above are you sure you share the right document? The strings being looked for don't appear to be in cleaning_contract.docx.