how to create a fillable form in word 2007

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Hello my name is Josiah Bray I'm going to show you how to make a Microsoft Word document with editable fields and this is really great for you know handing out applications or something like that where you only want somebody to be able to put their information in and not change anything about the document so here I am inside of word and the first thing that we need to do is add a new menu to the ribbon so come over to the office button and we're going to go all the way to the bottom and click on word options and here right underneath popular we want this option that says show Developer tab we're going to click that and say ok and this Developer tab is what's going to allow us to put all kinds of really cool stuff right into the word document so let's click on it and we can click on design motor it'll go into it by itself when we start adding things but before we do that I'm just going to start putting in the labels so what we're going to call these fields so let's go say name date of birth and I don't know maybe gender those are those are pretty good ones I'm going to do is I'm also going to tap out the spaces here so that all the forms that we put on are going to be an even distance from each other they're all going to be lined up in there going to be an even distance from the side of the page so now we're going to click on design mode and underneath controls here right in the design mode area we want this legacy tools thing we're going to drop it down and it's kind of hard to see if they're all kind of cranked together but we want this one here if you hover over it it says text box and so we're going to insert text box and we're going to do the same thing for each of these these three rows and you can see if you click on text box you can resize it you can move around whatever you would like to do because you're inside of design mode now the next thing we're going to do is protect the document so that nobody can touch any of the text or the formatting or design of the document they can only put stuff into the fields so we're going to deselect that text box and go out of design mode because it won't let you protect it while you're in design mode let's come over to review and all the way on the right click protect document we want the restrict formatting and editing option so let's say underneathh editing restrictions we want to only allow filling in forms and that's all we want to allow people to do and we'll say yep we want to start