Creating Electronic Forms in Word 2003

1. Creating Electronic Forms in Word 2003

2. Creating Forms in Word 2003 • What is an electronic form?

3. Creating Forms in Word 2003 • What is an electronic form? An electronic form is a Word document, but with certain restrictions. Only certain parts of the document (called form fields) can be edited; the rest of the document is protected.

4. Creating Forms in Word 2003 • What is an electronic form used for?

5. Creating Forms in Word 2003 • What is an electronic form used for? A form can be used for any type of document you have that is asking for standard information; for example, an application to attend a conference would ask for such things as name, address, age and so forth.

6. Creating Forms in Word 2003 • How do I create an electronic form?

7. Creating Forms in Word 2003 • How do I create an electronic form? A form has certain special requirements; we will be using the Forms toolbar and saving our document as a template (.dot file) rather than as a standard Word document.

8. Creating Forms in Word 2003 • We will be looking only at how we place fields in a Word document to create a form, and how we protect the form so that only the parts we want to allow the user to change can be changed. We will not be examining how to design forms; that is an involved process that could take a full Cooperative Conversation by itself.

9. Creating Forms in Word 2003 Steps to creating a form: • Open Forms toolbar • Place form fields in document • Protect document • Save document as a template • Use the template to create final document.