How to lock everything except certain text fields?

I was once sent a Microsoft Word document that could not be edited other that tabbing through text fields for the purpose of filling out answers to questions. The questions were password protected and couldn't be directly edited.
I want to know if Pages can duplicate that very thing. It would make for excellent templates. I want to be able to tab over text fields without myself or anyone else being able to directly edit most of the document.
How can I do this?

Hello SirMcGyver,
welcome to the Pages Discussionns. To lock shapes, textboxes and every other object use the menu item "Arrange/Lock" after selecting the objects. But after that the object is locked for all actions, you only can select them for unlocking.
If you want to have this feature exported into a Word document, this is not possible with Pages 1.0.2.
Frank.

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