Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Chapter Summary

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP-1 is the newest member of the Microsoft Office System 2003. The primary purpose of InfoPath is to create forms for capturing and saving semi-structured or fully structured data in the open-standard XML 1.0 format. InfoPath’s user interface is very similar to that of Word 2003; InfoPath shares many features that are common to all Office 2003 applications, such as task panes and AutoSave/AutoRecover.

An InfoPath form has two components: a template that defines the design of a form and an XML data document that contains the information you capture. You can e-mail forms with Microsoft Outlook, export the XML data to an Excel worksheet, and import the XML data into an Excel 2003 list or an XML view ...