It’s a lot easier to create custom forms in Word than you might think and, certainly, much easier than it was many years ago. Under the Developer tab, Microsoft provides nine Content Controls, 12 ...

As a business owner, there are occasions when you might want to create fillable forms for employees or customers to fill out. The most common way to do this is to create a fillable PDF. However, to do ...

After creating a fillable form in Microsoft Word, you may want to lock it down to prevent users from accidentally editing content outside the fillable areas. Microsoft Word provides a function called ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

One of the best ways to gauge user responses and collect data is with a survey. In this Word tip, Mary Ann Richardson explains how to create a customized survey form, step by step. Word allows you to ...

Most of us are very familiar with surveys because we have completed them from time to time. We know how to fill them in and we have experienced both good and bad surveys — some are cumbersome to ...

When you need to bring your Access data into a Word form, a little VBA can expedite the task. Susan Harkins walks through an example to demonstrate the process. Access reports provide a flexible and ...

In Microsoft Word, templates are pre-designed documents that you or someone else (such as Microsoft) creates to use as a pattern for a project. The template could be for a business card, brochure, ...