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About views

In Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, views are based on the Extensible Style Language (XSL) standard, which allows for the transformation and presentation of structured form data. Each Office InfoPath 2003 form has a default view, which is displayed to users when opening and filling out a form.

Form designers can also create custom views for their forms. Creating custom views can be useful in various scenarios. For example, if your form design is getting too long or too complex for everyone in your company, you can move parts of your form into different custom views and let users choose which view best meets their needs.

You can create custom views in the Views task pane in design mode. Users filling out the form can access the form's views on the View menu. When a user switches views, the form's data is not altered; only the presentation of the form and the amount of data displayed changes.

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Aside from custom views, you can also create print views for your forms. By default, when a user selects the Print command when filling out a form, the current view is printed. Form designers can also designate any existing view as a print view and specify custom printing options for it, such as headers, footers, and the page orientation of the form. When a user prints a form they are filling out that contains a designated print view, Office InfoPath 2003 will use the print view instead of the current view to print the form. This is useful when you want users to print out forms using a particular layout or to only print out certain parts of the form.