Create a text form field that lets you enter text once and have it appear automatically elsewhere in the document, such as the date shown in the file's header. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

The interactive text fields are common on job applications, official forms, contracts and any other document where the creator controls the fields and the user can only input data into the fields ...

Microsoft Word provides Legacy Tools to help you create a form with check boxes and other symbols. The Developer tab includes the check box form field on the Legacy Tools drop-down list. If the ...

Click anywhere on the Word document. On the menu bar, click the Insert tab. In the Text group, click the Quick Parts button. Then select Field from the drop-down menu. A Field dialog box will appear.