Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Understanding the Workflow Associated with Building and Distributing Word Forms

Before you can begin building and using Word electronic forms, it helps to understand the workflow associated with them. In general, you should follow these steps in the order presented:

1.	Plan your form. Understand its goals and the information it must elicit.
2.	Build a skeleton of your form. Add all the text and images that won't change when a user fills out the form. Leave space for the form's interactive elements—the areas users will fill out. (At this stage, you might want to do preliminary testing of your form with colleagues who will ultimately be working with it.)
3.	Add interactivity with form fields. In the spaces you've left for them, add form fields ...