Save it as a template by changing the Save as type to. Many people find that tables are a great help when aligning the elements of a form, so we’ll use a table for our form too.Ĭreate a new document (ctrl-n) and save it immediately (ctrl-s). These pieces of information will appear in our form for the respondents to fill in. Let’s list the information we might need:
Suppose we need to create a form that enables attendants to a course to give their feedback. Read more about displaying the Developer Tab. If you can’t see the Developer tab in the ribbon, click the File tab > Options > Customise Ribbon, and ensure that “Developer” exists in the right hand pane and that the option is checked. However, the Controls group is on the Developer tab and this is not displayed by default. The form fields toolbar of Word 2003 has been relocated to the Legacy Tools button in the Controls group in Word 2010 (in fact, this change occurred in Word 2007). Once the respondents have returned their completed forms, you can then use another program like Excel or Access to store the results, or just view them in Word. You can also ask any questions on this board, and someone will help.Forms in Microsoft Word provide a way for you to gather information from the people you send them to. If you are going to create legal documents, you should visit the Office template web site, available >, to see if there is a template you could use, or learn from. If you insert a space with a tab, Word will try to justify (as you call it, align) the paragraph and it will break. If you use tabs, make sure you only use tabs. If you use form fields, you can protect your document, allowing the user to only access the fields where information is to be entered.įinally, do not use the space bar to justify paragraphs. Next, how are you placing your blank spaces? Does the user have to use arrow keys or mouse clicks to select the blank spaces? If so, you may want to look into form fields under help. If you're just saving a document, then opening it and making changes, then you are not really using a Word template. It can be accessed from the File, New menu in Word. This will save the current document as a. You can choose Document Template when you are at the Save As dialog box by dropping down the Save As Type list. Are you saving this as a Document Template, or just a Word document. I know it's probably something simple I didn't pickup on, but I've search the Works "help" functions and can't find anything that, remotely, refers to my problem.ġ024 MB (4X256) Dual DDR PC3200 400mhz C元įirst, let's look at the "template" idea. This is the first I tried this type or (legal) document with embedded blanks to be filled in with additional data.
I've been using works for a few year for many spreadsheets, letters and lists. When I tried to fix them by inserting more spaces (or lines), more and more lines went out of alignment. They just wouldn't move or re-align and the only way I found to fix them, was to re-type the whole paragraph. I left about 20 blank spaces to be filled in with names, dates, etc.įilling in the "blanks" has not been a problem.īut, when I decided to change and/or insert a few sentences, or words within a sentence, and re-save it as a "new" template a few of the sentences in completely different paragraphs went out of alignment to the left. The document is a 5 page legal document, with 3 left tabs set. I just opened a blank word document and started typing. I guess this is part of the problem: I don't know what you are talking about.
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