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

10.2. Using InfoPath Forms Services for Customers Without InfoPath

Suppose you don't want to publish your forms to a network file share because it requires the form users to have InfoPath on their desktop, and not everyone in your organization has InfoPath installed. If you have InfoPath Forms Services installed on your SharePoint server, you can publish your templates to document libraries. Users can then access the forms from the library just like they would access other document types.

You can specify in the library whether to attempt to open the file using the appropriate client application or to open it in the user's web browser. Of course, if you do not have Forms Services, you can still publish your form to the library, and users can ...