Creating Fill-in Forms
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- What Is Writer?
- The Writer interface
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- Working with documents
- Working with text
- Selecting Items That Are Not Consecutive
- Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Finding and Replacing Text and Formatting
- Inserting Special Characters
- Inserting Dashes and Non-breaking Spaces and Hyphens
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- Changing the Default Tab stop Interval
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- Creating a Table of Contents
- Creating Indexes and Bibliographies
- Adding Images and Other Graphics
- Adding Tables, Spreadsheets, and Charts
- Adding a Movie or Sound
- Printing
- Using Mail Merge
- Tracking Changes to a Document
- Using Fields
- Linking to another part of a document
- Using Master Documents
- Creating Fill-in Forms
Creating Fill-in Forms
A standard text document displays information: a letter, report, or brochure, for example. Typically, the reader may edit everything or nothing in any way. A form has sections that are not to be edited, and other sections that are designed for the reader to make changes. For example, a questionnaire has an introduction and questions (which do not change) and spaces for the reader to enter answers.
Forms are used in three ways:
- To create a simple document for the recipient to complete, such as a questionnaire sent out to a group of people who fill it in and return it.
- To link into a database or data source and allow the user to enter information. Someone taking orders might enter the information for each order into a database using a form.
- To view information held in a database or data source. A librarian might call up information about books.
Writer offers several ways to fill information into a form, including check boxes, option buttons, text boxes, pull-down lists and spinners. See Chapter 15 (Using Forms in Writer) in the Writer Guide.
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