Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

Chapter 9. An Introduction to Creating Forms with InfoPath

I know many people who have installed Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 on their desktop machines. On practically a daily basis, they open and use MS Outlook and MS Word. They may even use MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and occasionally MS Access. But many of them never noticed a largely undiscovered tool named InfoPath, which first became part of the Microsoft Office Suite in 2003 and has been significantly enhanced in 2007.

InfoPath is important to your SharePoint implementation because it brings an easy-to-use form design tool based on XML (Extensible Markup Language) to the desktop and your browser. With it, you can gather data from users without having to write applications, and you can then ...