Table of contents
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Introducing InfoPath
- Introducing Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003
- Take an animated tour
- What's new in the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Service Pack
- About working with forms that do not have service pack features
- Enable or disable service pack features
- About the InfoPath workspace
- About forms and form templates
- Switch between modes
- About designing new, blank forms
- Troubleshoot viewing the InfoPath Tour
- Sample Forms
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Startup and Settings
- About product activation in Microsoft Office System products
- What's new in Microsoft Office 2003
- Disclaimer: Use of Fictitious Names
- Terms of Use
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Getting Help
- Getting Help on form development
- Show or hide the Type a question for help box
- Change the appearance of a Help topic
- Print a Help topic
- Navigate the InfoPath Tour with the keyboard
- Other Resources
- Accessibility
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Installing and Customizing
- Get information about your program and computer
- Customize how InfoPath starts
- Set InfoPath as the default program for opening and editing InfoPath forms
- Enable or disable service pack features
- Show or hide shortcut keys in ScreenTips
- Show or hide the Fill Out a Form dialog box
- Add a form to the Favorites form category
- Create a form category
- Give feedback for Microsoft Office Online or an Office program
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Toolbars and Commands
- About menus and toolbars
- Add or delete a shortcut from the My Places bar
- Animate menus
- Change the size of a toolbar button or drop-down list box
- Add a button, menu, or command
- Delete a button or menu command
- Delete a toolbar or menu
- Display an icon, text or both on a menu command or button
- Change a picture on a button
- Group related buttons and menus on a toolbar
- Assign a hyperlink to a toolbar button or menu command
- Add, change, or delete sounds used with buttons and menu commands
- Assign or change a keyboard accelerator
- Move a toolbar
- Move or copy a button, menu, or menu command
- Rename a button, menu command, or menu
- Rename a custom toolbar
- Resize a toolbar
- Restore original settings for buttons, commands, or toolbars
- Show all buttons or commands
- Show or hide a toolbar
- Show or hide actual fonts in the font list
- Show or hide multiple program buttons on the Windows Taskbar
- Show or hide toolbar ScreenTips
- Troubleshoot toolbars and menus
- Troubleshooting Installing Office
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Using Microsoft Office
- About Microsoft Proofing Tools
- About the default working folder
- Automatically start an Office program when you turn on your computer
- Change Office's appearance
- Change the language of the user interface or Help in Office programs
- Copy the window or screen contents
- Change the screen resolution
- Change the program that starts when you open a file
- Format a disk
- Install or remove individual components in Office
- Minimize a window
- Minimize all program windows on the Windows desktop
- Restore a minimized window
- Show all windows on the Windows desktop
- View all hidden file types and file name extensions
- What happened to the Office Shortcut Bar?
- Office programs you can use to create an online or printed form
- Managing Forms and Files
- Printing
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Filling Out and Saving Forms
- Find and open a form
- Get form updates
- Export a form to Excel
- Merge forms
- About AutoComplete
- Change AutoComplete settings
- Find and replace text
- About forms and form templates
- Check for data errors in a form
- Redo your last action
- Undo mistakes
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Formatting Text
- Adjust line or paragraph spacing
- Remove a list
- Apply a heading format to text
- Modify a list
- Apply bold formatting
- Apply italic formatting
- Apply or remove highlighting
- Apply strikethrough formatting
- Change the color of text
- Change the font
- Change the size of text
- Copy all formatting from one object to another
- Make text superscript or subscript
- Remove formatting from text
- Underline text
- Working with Hyperlinks
- Aligning Text
- Spell Checking
- Handwriting and Ink
- Inserting Symbols
- Saving Forms
- Working with Tables
- Working with SharePoint
- Digital Signatures
- Working with Pictures
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Designing and Laying Out Forms
- About form layout
- Understanding key design mode icons
- Import a file to use as a form template
- Add a resource file to a form template
- Find and replace text
- Redo your last action
- Undo mistakes
- About designing new, blank forms
- Show or hide a page width guide
- Specify a custom layout width
- Enable or disable a custom task pane
- Enable or disable the Save, Export, Print, or Send command
- Set the default values for a form
- Change the default tab order for controls
- Protect a form's design
- Layout Tables
- Borders and Shading
- Color Schemes
- Check Spelling
- Working with Hyperlinks
- Working with Pictures
- Inserting Symbols
- Aligning Text
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Text Formatting
- Adjust line or paragraph spacing
- Apply a heading format to text
- Apply bold formatting
- Apply italic formatting
- Apply or remove highlighting
- Apply strikethrough formatting
- Change the color of text
- Change the font
- Change the size of text
- Copy all formatting from one object to another
- Make text superscript or subscript
- Remove formatting from text
- Underline text
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Working with the Data Source
- About the data source
- Design a form based on an existing XML document
- Design a form based on an existing XML Schema
- Replace the data source with an updated XML Schema
- Add an XML Schema or XML document to the data source
- Set the default value for a field in the data source
- Change the data type
- Add a field or group
- Move a field or group
- Delete a field or group
- Change the name of a field or group
- View the details of a field or group
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Working with Data Connections
- About data connections
- Design a form based on a database
- Design a form based on a Web service
- Connect a form to a SharePoint site
- Connect a form to an external XML document
- Connect an existing form to a database
- Connect an existing form to a Web service
- Modify or remove a data connection
- Update the main data connection to a database or Web service
- Insert a button that refreshes data from a secondary data source
- Insert a control bound to a secondary data source
- Populate a list box with values from a database, Web service, XML document, or SharePoint site
- Submitting Forms
- Working with Views
- Working with User Roles
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Working with Controls
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Control Fundamentals
- About controls
- Move a control
- Delete a control
- Make a control required
- Copy and paste a control
- Hide or disable a control based on values in a form
- Change a control to another control
- Change the binding of a control
- Test the binding of a control
- Apply the same font to multiple controls
- Add a label to a control
- Insert a vertical label
- Assign a keyboard shortcut to a control
- Insert a control bound to a secondary data source
- Change text alignment in a control
- Align text in a control with its label
- Set the default value for a control
- Add placeholder text to a control
- Change the size of a control
- Insert a scrolling region
- Change the margins for a control
- Change the padding in a control
- Change the properties for multiple controls at once
- Set a control as read-only
- Show or hide sample data
- Enable or disable the spelling checker for a control
- ActiveX Controls
- Buttons and Date Pickers
- Check Boxes and Option Buttons
- Choice Groups
- Ink, Picture, and File Attachment Controls
- List Boxes
- Bulleted, Numbered, and Plain List Controls
- Master/Detail Controls
- Sections
- Repeating Tables
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Text Boxes and Expression Boxes
- Insert a text box
- Insert a rich text box
- Insert an expression box
- Enable or disable character formatting in a control
- Enable or disable full rich text formatting in a control
- Enable or disable paragraph breaks in a control
- Enable or disable text wrapping for a control
- Specify the character limit for a text box
- Manage text scrolling in a control
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Control Fundamentals
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Formatting Data
- Add or remove a currency symbol
- Add or remove a thousands separator in a number
- Add or remove percent formatting for a number
- Change how a date or time is displayed
- Change how negative numbers are displayed
- Remove formatting from a date, time, or number
- Specify the number of decimal places displayed
- Conditional Formatting
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Calculating Data
- About formulas and functions
- Insert a formula
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide values
- Calculate the average for a column of numbers
- Display the contents of multiple fields in one control
- Display the current date
- Display the current date and time
- Round a number in a control
- Sum a column of numbers
- Edit the XPath expression for a formula
- Validating Data
- Defining Rules
- Filtering Data
- Previewing and Testing Forms
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Saving and Publishing Forms
- About saving and publishing forms
- Publish a form template
- Send a form in an e-mail message
- Save a form
- Save a form template's form files to a folder
- Save a form template without service pack features
- Run script when a user saves a form
- Specify a form upgrade method
- Add service pack features to a form template
- Modify an existing form template
- Move a published form template to a new location
- Working with Form Libraries
- Merging Forms
- Understanding XML
- Security and Privacy
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Language-Specific Features
- Select diacritics or ligated characters
- Delete diacritics, ligatures, and special marks in South Asian text
- Search Japanese text
- Check spelling in other languages
- Turn on or off German spelling rules
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Language Setup
- About the global interface and Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack
- About multilingual features in Office
- Requirements for specific languages
- Change the default language setting
- Install system support for multiple languages
- Install the universal font for Unicode
- Change the default country/region
- Locale identification numbers for language-specific files
- Remove commands and controls for languages you don't use
- Enable editing of multiple languages in Office programs
- Show or hide the Language bar
- Use a keyboard layout for a specific language
- Indic
- East Asian
- Glossary