Trent Shipley wrote:
> On Thursday 2004-12-23 12:00, Lee Einer wrote:
>
>
>>Not that I am aware of. In the case of the employer I was dealing with,
>>their form had to be signed and printed out anyway, so the PDF was a
>>reasonable replacement for the .doc file. A form which was to be
>>completed electronically would require a different solution. HTML,
>>perhaps?
>>
>
>
> Yes, for online HTML would be ideal.
>
> Using Word documents as forms is a path of least resistance. Virtually every
> office uses Word, and almost all private users. If you put up a Word form
> you can bet that something like 95%-plus of all users will be able to fill it
> out interactively and another 2% or so will be able to print hard-copy from
> their browser.
>
> Advantages of the *.doc interactive form:
>
> 1) We have Word, we have Word gurus, without additional training we can get to
> a prototype form in-house in 2-4 hours.
>
> 2) We can use the resulting file to produce hard-copy forms.
>
> 3) We can put the exact same form online and only an insignificant minority of
> users will be unable to access the form.
Trolling Trent?
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