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Subject:Documents created by forms From:Lucille Lattanzi <lucille -dot- lattanzi -at- PERI -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 Feb 1998 09:25:56 -0500
Greetings list members -
I am converting what was a long (21 pages) paper form into an online
form with text, checkbox, and drop-down fields. The subject matter has
to do with job specifications in a software company.
If anyone on TECHWR-L has experience with kind of task (creating form
documents in or out of Word97) please tell about what you considered
really important (20-20 hindsight?) about the writing and testing
processes. Ex.: How elaborate was your field help??
If anyone on Word-PC has such experience, please tell me how you handled
new pages created by text entries. How did you ensure that the document
identifying information appeared at the top of such new pages? (Word
doesn't allow form fields in headers/footer.) I've fooled with REF
fields but that's as far as I got.
TIA