What’s the Best Way to Create a Form?

With the Office applications, you can create many different forms and use them in widely varying ways. In Microsoft Access, a form is an online document you can use to enter, edit, or view data. In other Office applications, a form is a framework for a document you use repeatedly, for example, an order form or expense report.

In your work, you may be creating your own forms already. If you open an existing document, save it with a different file name, and fill in information such as expenses or customer data, you are using the document as a form.

Use the following table to decide which use of forms is closest to the work you want to do.