Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Working with Repeating Tables

The Status Report form and most other sample InfoPath forms include repeating tables. The form examples you’ve worked with so far in this book don’t have sections that suit repeating tables well because most text boxes contain lengthy content. Sales orders, invoices, and similar business documents include line items that lend themselves to display in repeating tables. As an example, a sales order created from a query against the Access Northwind database’s Orders and Order Details tables includes order-specific information and multiple line items. The line items include several numeric data types, which give you the opportunity to explore InfoPath’s numeric formatting features and receive a preview of calculating ...