Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Integrating InfoPath with Other Applications

InfoPath’s use of XML as its data exchange format means that XML-enabled applications, such as Microsoft Word 2003 and Excel 2003, can import and edit InfoPath data files. You also can view, update, and save information stored in databases or retrieved from XML Web services. The following sections provide brief descriptions of InfoPath’s most important interoperability features.

Working with Office Excel and Word 2003

You can import simple InfoPath XML data documents to Excel 2003 Professional Edition workbooks and assign XML leaf element text to worksheet list columns automatically. Assigning individual elements to columns is called mapping. You must make minor changes to Excel’s default mapping ...