Word or Excel to create forms? Help!

I have MS Office 97 Standard Edition. I don't know which program to use, either word or excel to create my finished product.
I want to create a document or form ? (I don't know what to properly call it)
The document i need to create will be used by me to create a Lesson Plan for teaching. It will have a series of boxes, similar in apperance to a calendar.
Each box should have a text box with word wrap capability. I want to type in each box my plan for that day. I then want to print it and put in my loose leaf binder. Each box should have a locked word inside the box that cannot be typed over or moved. The word wrap feature should wrap around this word.
I do not need pull down features, although, somewhere down the line this may be useful because I will be inserting a word from a list of often used words, in each box.
I'm not familiar with these programs' nomenclature, ie., text box, object, field etc.
thanks
Greg

 

word/excel -more info...

I have a hard copy of the above mentioned form. I also have it on a disk, created in Word, given to me by someone, but I'm able to delete the lines, boxes and text. It has no lock-out, but it does have word wrap in each of the boxes. When I open the file in Word that is newer than Word97, such as the program i have at work, a message appears having to do with "macros" and to turn them on from the original program. When I open this file in Word97 I get no such message.
Greg

 

There's a lot of good help on Word at Word Expert Office Tips and more information that might help you at How to Create MS Word Templates and Forms.

Finally, there are numerous templates you can download for free from the Microsoft Office Template Gallery, including an entire section on calendars for both Word and Excel. Maybe one will lend itself to what you're doing.