Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Converting Electronic Forms to Printed Forms

It's common to create forms that will be used both from within Word and in printed versions. Word delivers "What You See Is What You Get" formatting, so your forms appear in print exactly as they do onscreen. (There is one exception: The gray rectangles that mark form fields onscreen do not appear in print.)

Having said this, the art of creating an easy-to-use printed form varies slightly from the techniques you need for electronic forms. Keep these pointers in mind:

• When they're working in Word, users can enter large amounts of data even in a tiny text form field (as long as you haven't limited the maximum length of their entries). Of course, this isn't true in print. Make sure you leave sufficient ...