[Billy_Soup]

I have a bunch of forms that I want to digitalize.
I will want to have the forms add some of the data through data in a
database, then get the user to add some data of their own and then read that
in and insert to the database. Tried the adobe pdf route, didn't work unless
we got all our users to get adobe pro which wasn't going to happen.

Anyways I have these forms that I scan in or add from a pdf, or export from
Cyrstal Reports, and unfportunately it is not looking very easy to do.
Getting the formatting done seems to be the problem as it does not look like
it is possible to just drop a form field wherever you want it.
ps the reading in and all that stuff I can do, don't need help on that, just
the making of the forms themselves)
If anyone has any suggestions or help or solutions that would be much
appreciated.

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you anchor the image of the form in the header of the document, it will
appear as a watermark and you can then insert a table in the bodyof the
document to position formfields in the locations where you need the users to
add their data.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Billy_Soup" wrote in message
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I have a bunch of forms that I want to digitalize.
I will want to have the forms add some of the data through data in a
database, then get the user to add some data of their own and then read
that
in and insert to the database. Tried the adobe pdf route, didn't work
unless
we got all our users to get adobe pro which wasn't going to happen.

Anyways I have these forms that I scan in or add from a pdf, or export
from
Cyrstal Reports, and unfportunately it is not looking very easy to do.
Getting the formatting done seems to be the problem as it does not look
like
it is possible to just drop a form field wherever you want it.
ps the reading in and all that stuff I can do, don't need help on that,
just
the making of the forms themselves)
If anyone has any suggestions or help or solutions that would be much
appreciated.