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Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Help

Microsoft Office InfoPath

Table of contents

• Introducing InfoPath
  • Take an animated tour
  • About the InfoPath workspace
  • Switch between modes
  • About forms and form templates
  • About form development
  • About sample forms
  • Navigate the InfoPath Tour by using the keyboard
  • Troubleshoot viewing the InfoPath Tour
• 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
  • Getting Help
    • About getting help while you work
    • Show or hide the Type a question for help box
    • Change the appearance of a Help topic
    • Print a Help topic
    • Getting Help on form development
    • Identify content in the Search Results task pane
    • Troubleshoot Help
    • Other Resources
      • Open the Office Readme file
      • About the Office Resource Kit
      • Get help from Microsoft Product Support services
      • Microsoft Office Online
        • About Office Communities
        • Complete an Office Web-based training course
        • Search for help, templates, and additional online content on Microsoft Office Online
        • Turn Microsoft Office Online featured links on or off
        • Give feedback for Microsoft Office Online or an Office program
  • Accessibility
    • Accessibility features in Office Help
    • Using screen readers with Help
    • About creating accessible Office documents
    • Navigate the InfoPath Tour by using the keyboard
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
      • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Installing and Customizing
    • Get information about your program and computer
    • Add or delete a shortcut from the My Places bar
    • Show or hide shortcut keys in ScreenTips
    • Install or remove individual components in Office
    • Toolbars and Commands
      • About menus and toolbars
      • Add a button, menu, or command
      • Animate menus
      • Change the size of a toolbar button or drop-down list box
      • 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
      • Remove commands and controls for languages you don't use
      • Group related buttons and menus on a toolbar
      • Assign a hyperlink to a toolbar button or menu command
      • 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 toolbar ScreenTips
      • Troubleshoot toolbars and menus
    • Troubleshooting Installing Office
      • Automatically repair Office programs
      • Troubleshoot installing an Office program
  • Using Microsoft Office
    • About the default working folder
    • Automatically start an Office program when you turn on your computer
    • Change Office's appearance
    • Copy the window or screen contents
    • Change the screen resolution
    • Change the program that starts when you open a file
    • Format a disk
    • 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
    • Show or hide multiple program buttons on the Windows Taskbar
  • Managing Files
    • Find and open a form
    • Copy a file
    • Move a file
    • Rename a file
    • Delete a file
    • Select multiple files
    • Connect to a network drive
    • Go back to the previous drive, folder, or Internet location
• Printing
  • Printer Setup
    • Find a printer
    • Set the default printer
    • Set up a new printer
  • Print Options
    • Select a paper source
    • Select page orientation
    • Print more than one copy
  • Printing Forms
    • Print a form
    • Preview a form before printing
    • Check the progress of your print job
    • Cancel printing
• Filling Out Forms
  • Find and open a form
  • Form Fundamentals
    • Text Formatting
      • Apply bold formatting
      • Type ¢, £, Â¥, ®, and other characters not on the keyboard
      • Apply italic formatting
      • Apply strikethrough formatting
      • Change the color of text
      • Change the font
      • Apply or remove highlighting
      • Change the size of text
      • Remove formatting from text
      • Make text superscript or subscript
      • Underline text
      • Apply a heading format to text
      • Align text left or right
      • Center text
      • Justify text
      • Indent text
    • AutoComplete
      • About AutoComplete
      • Change AutoComplete settings
    • Hyperlinks
      • Insert a hyperlink
      • Copy a hyperlink
      • Edit a hyperlink
      • Remove a hyperlink
    • Graphics
      • Insert a picture
      • Position a picture relative to text
      • Resize a picture
      • Provide alternative text for a picture
      • Graphics file types InfoPath can use
      • Working with Clip Art
        • About the Clip Organizer
        • Add a clip to the Clip Organizer
        • Open Clip Organizer from an Office program
        • About finding clips
        • Find and insert a clip
        • Find similar clips
        • Preview a clip
        • View clip properties
        • Tips for finding clips
        • Troubleshoot clips
    • Find and Replace
      • Find and replace text
    • Repeat and Undo
      • Undo mistakes
      • Redo your last action
  • Working with Data
    • Tables
      • Align contents of a table cell
      • Align a table
      • Change the cell padding of table cells
      • Copy or move a table or its contents
      • Split or merge table cells
      • Resize all or part of a table
      • Delete rows or columns from a table
      • Delete a table
      • Insert a table
      • Add rows and columns to a table
    • Lists
      • Modify a list
      • Remove a list
      • Insert a list
    • Sections
      • Copy and paste a section
      • Remove a section
      • Insert a section
  • Working with Views
    • About views
    • Switch between views
  • Correcting Forms
    • Spell Checking
      • Check spelling
      • Check spelling in other languages
      • Turn on or off automatic spelling checker
      • Show or hide wavy underlines
      • Set spelling preferences
      • Turn on or off German spelling rules
    • Data Errors
      • About data validation
      • Check for data errors in a form
  • Saving and Sharing Forms
    • About saving and publishing forms
    • About sharing your forms with others
    • Save a form
    • Save a form as a Web page
    • Submit a form
    • Send a form using e-mail
  • Importing and Exporting Forms
    • Merge multiple forms
    • Export a form to Excel
• Designing Forms
  • Find and open a form
  • Understanding key design mode icons
  • Working with the Data Source
    • About the data source
    • Starting with an Existing Data Source
      • Sample Forms, XML Schemas, and XML Documents
        • Design a form based on an existing XML document
        • Design a form based on an existing XML Schema
        • Customize a sample form
      • Databases and Web Services
        • Design a form connected to a Web service
        • Design a form connected to a database
    • Working with Fields and Groups
      • Add a field or group
      • Change the name of a field or group
      • Change the data type
      • Move a field or group
      • View the details of a field or group
      • Delete a field or group
    • Setting Default Values
      • Set the default value for a control
      • Set the default values for a form
  • Laying Out a Form
    • About form design
    • About form layout
    • About color schemes
    • Apply a color scheme
    • Add or remove borders and shading
    • Add a border around a form
  • Working with Views
    • About views
    • Add or delete a view
    • Rename a view
    • Modify view properties
    • Set the default view
    • Switch between views
  • Working with Controls
    • About controls
    • Inserting Controls
      • Insert a button
      • Insert a hyperlink
      • Insert a picture
      • Insert a check box
      • Insert a control into a section
      • Insert a date picker
      • Insert a list box
      • Insert an optional section
      • Insert a repeating section
      • Insert a rich text box
      • Insert a text box
      • Insert a section
      • Insert a list
      • Insert a table
      • Insert option buttons
      • Insert an ink picture control
      • Add rows and columns to a table
    • Customizing Controls
      • Add a label to a control
      • Add placeholder text to a control
      • Change a control to another control
      • Change AutoComplete settings
      • Change text alignment in a control
      • Change the padding in a control
      • Change the margins for a control
      • Change the size of a control
      • Change the default state of a check box
      • Change the binding of a control
      • Copy and paste a control
      • Delete a control
      • 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 the spelling checker for a control
      • Enable or disable text wrapping for a control
      • Manage text scrolling in a control
      • Move a control
      • Rearrange columns in a repeating table
      • Set a control as read-only
    • Setting Default Values
      • Set the default value for a control
      • Set the default values for a form
  • Customizing Commands
    • Customize menu and toolbar commands for a repeating section
    • Customize commands for an optional section
    • Customize menu and toolbar commands for a repeating table
    • Set options for form submission
  • Validating and Formatting Data
    • Data Validation
      • About data validation
      • Add data validation
      • Make a control required
      • Remove data validation
    • Conditional Formatting
      • About conditional formatting
      • Add or change conditional formatting
      • Add conditional formatting based on another control
      • Hide a control based on values in a form
      • Remove conditional formatting
    • Number and Date Formatting
      • 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
      • Specify the number of decimal places displayed
  • Creating Formulas
    • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide values
    • Calculate the average of a column of numbers
    • Count the instances of a field
    • Display the contents of two fields in one control
    • Display the row number in a repeating table
    • Sum a column of numbers
  • Setting Options for Your Users
    • Enable form submission
    • Design a form connected to a Web service
    • Enable a custom task pane
    • Design a form connected to a database
    • Set options for form submission
    • Enable or disable form merging for a form template
    • Add a resource file to a form template
  • Previewing and Testing Forms
    • About previewing and testing forms
    • Preview a form
    • Show or hide sample data
  • Saving and Distributing Forms
    • About saving and publishing forms
    • Publish a form template
    • Save a form
    • Save a form template's form files to a folder
    • Modifying and Upgrading Forms
      • About modifying a published form template
      • About upgrading forms
      • Modify a form library's form template
      • Specify a form upgrade method
  • Working with Form Libraries
    • About form libraries
    • Create a form library
    • Add, remove, or modify form library columns
    • Modify a form library's form template
• Understanding XML
  • How InfoPath uses XML technologies
  • About XML
  • About XSLT
  • About XML Schemas
  • About XPath
  • About namespaces
  • About processing instructions
  • About the XML DOM
  • About XML processors
  • About XML Signatures
• Security and Privacy
  • About InfoPath security
  • Security
    • Form Security
      • About helping protect files from macro viruses
      • Protect your form's design
      • Set security options for installed forms
      • About security zones
      • Set a security level for a zone
    • Digital Signatures
      • About digital signatures
      • Add, remove, or review digital signatures
      • Enable or disable digital signatures
      • Request a digital certificate
  • Privacy
    • Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Privacy Statement
    • Microsoft Office Activation/Registration Privacy Statement
• Language-Specific Features
  • About automatic font switching
  • Check spelling in other languages
  • Show or hide the Language bar
  • Turn on or off German spelling rules
  • Troubleshoot working in a different language
  • Language Setup
    • About Microsoft Proofing Tools
    • Requirements for specific languages
    • Change the default language setting
    • Change the language of the user interface or Help in Office programs
    • Install system support for multiple languages
    • Change the default country/region
    • Locale identification numbers for language-specific files
    • Remove commands and controls for languages you don't use
    • Use a keyboard layout for a specific language
  • Encoded Text Files and Unicode
    • Install the universal font for Unicode
  • East Asian
    • Adjust line breaks for East Asian text
    • Automatically adjust character spacing for mixed East Asian and Latin text
    • Reconvert Japanese, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese text
    • Review a file by using Reconversion
    • Add or delete Hanja in a custom dictionary
    • Input Method Editors (IME)
      • About Input Method Editors (IMEs)
      • Install an Input Method Editor (IME)
      • Add a word to an Input Method Editor (IME) dictionary
      • Set the default Input Method Editor (IME)
• Glossary
  • InfoPath Glossary

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