Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

9.9. Creating and Reusing Form Sections with Template Parts

Most programmers practice code reusability. Form designers can also benefit from reusing common groups of controls, especially when those controls require extensive formatting. InfoPath provides a way to build groups of controls that you can later reuse in other templates. In this example, you will build a template for a customer's mailing address so you can use it in a variety of forms, including the order shipment page of an order manifest. In fact, this page uses the template part twice, once for the mail-to address and once for the bill-to address.

You start the process of building a template part similar to that of building a template form. Click Design a Form Template from the ...