I have a Word document given to me by a client. It is an employment application with form fields that the client wants to be downloadable from her web site. I'm opening it in Word 2008 for Mac (12.
I think you do need to provide more info as to what exactly you are hoping to accomplish. If you are looking to build a form from ground-up, you will need to enable the 'Developer' tab to gain access to the form controls. The developer tab is not enabled by default, so you will need to click on the gear icon to the top right, and choose 'Ribbon Preferences'. Under the 'Tab or Group Title' options, make sure to check the 'Developer' option in order to show the Developer tab. Click OK, and you should now have the Developer tab enabled. Feel free to use the form controls here for things such as text fields, etc etc.
Once your form is done, click 'Protect Form', save as a normal Word document, and send it out to those folks whom you want them to fill up the form. They fill up, click the save button, and send it back to you.
Creating Forms In Word For Mac
From available Form Controls list, you can insert checkboxes, drop-down lists, combo boxes, text panes & labels to create an intriguing user entry form without using any designated tool. This post is a detailed walk-through of creating a simple user entry form using Word 2010 Form Content Controls. To narrow down the issue, please try to create a new document in Word for Mac, insert some Content Controls (Check boxes, Text boxes and drop-down lists) for the form in Mac, save it and reopen. Confirm if this form can be filled or not. By Geetesh Bajaj, James Gordon. Making a form in Word 2011 for Mac is as simple as choosing appropriate form controls from the Developer tab of the Office 2011 for Mac Ribbon, placing them in your Word document, and then enabling your form by turning protection on.
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Hope this helps - it can get quite complicated once you going into automated macros and other more advanced form capabilities of Word.