Word 2007: Fill in the blank forms/templates?

ResIpsaLoquitur

At an old job, they had forms that you could open, certain parts of which were untouchable, and the rest fillable. An example would be an invoice, where the date could be changed, the description, quantity, cost, etc lines could be changed, but the rest couldn't be touched.

I'm trying to do the same thing for my small business, but I don't know how they did it, and if they were able to do this using only Word.

Any thoughts? Do I need a 3rd party program, or can I do this in Word? If so, how?

Is anything more I can add to make the question(s) more clear?

PirateJon

The term is "fillable form". Word 2007 instructions:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100307461033.aspx

If you can buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you'll be a lot happier. It's the market leader in that space.

ResIpsaLoquitur

PirateJon wrote: »

The term is "fillable form". Word 2007 instructions:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100307461033.aspx

If you can buy a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you'll be a lot happier. It's the market leader in that space.

I may go that route. In my case, though, I still have a decent amount of composition and non-default formatting in some of those blanks, so I like having Word for those issues.

PirateJon

Glad that will work for you then.

I don't do content myself, but I know adobe does free trials and that most content-types swear by (and at) adobe.