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

9.4. Migrating Your Existing Word Forms into InfoPath

Suppose you already have a form created using MS Word. You may have spent a great deal of time creating the formatting of that form to make it look exactly the way you want. Or maybe you found the perfect form template on Microsoft's template site, but the site only had a Word version of it. In either case, you definitely do not want to re-create that form from scratch. So how can you import that Word form into InfoPath without a lot of extra work?

I'm going to start with a form template downloaded from Microsoft's site named Petty Cash Receipt, which is shown in Figure 9-11. While this form is fairly simple, it demonstrates the concepts needed to convert a Word template to an InfoPath form. ...