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Does anyone know of a good program for creating electronic forms that can also be filled out by the end user without having to have special software installed on their computer?

I've looked at a few but nothing seems to really be what I am looking for.

Thanks.
 
do you want consolidate data of many users
or is it a one-off action by users.

What's the purpose of the data entered by the end user?
This makes a significant difference ...

Krgrds,
Perry
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Does anyone know of a good program for creating electronic forms that can also be filled out by the end user without having to have special software installed on their computer?

I've looked at a few but nothing seems to really be what I am looking for.

Thanks.
 
The end result is to hopefully create a paperless organization. Most of the forms would be filled out and emailed to the appropriate person. There are some areas where the forms could be filled out and stored but I think that would be in the future.
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do you want consolidate data of many users
or is it a one-off action by users.

What's the purpose of the data entered by the end user?
This makes a significant difference ...

Krgrds,
Perry
"Stranger" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
Does anyone know of a good program for creating electronic forms that can also be filled out by the end user without having to have special software installed on their computer?

I've looked at a few but nothing seems to really be what I am looking for.

Thanks.
 
Does Internet Exploder (er... Explorer) count as "special software"? If
not, you could make your data entry form an Access "Page", and run a
small webserver on the machine. That would do it for you.

grep
 
I believe I had looked at that a while back. However, that would take a lot
of time recreating all of the forms. I've looked at word forms but those
tend to loose there shape and people fill stuff in. I've also looked at
Adobe but that requires software on the end-user side to fill them out.

There are probably about 200 forms to start with.
 
I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish. I assume you are
trying to use Access because this question is in an Access forum. You could
scan the 200 paper forms and make them bitmaps. Then you could use them as
backgrounds for access forms. You could put text boxes in where the user is
supposed to enter data. You could link the forms to 200 tables. Then the
users could enter the data and you would be able to look at the data later in
access tables which would enable you to sort and find things.

I hope this helps.

David G.
 
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