Creating Fillable Forms Using Microsoft Word. If you work for a business that needs to build form functionality into an existing processes or workflows, our team. Click OK and click on the tab in the ribbon. The section we are most interested in is Controls. Creating a Form in Word. The Controls section has about eight different controls that can be added to your Word document: Rich Text, Plain-Text, Picture, Building Block Gallery, Checkbox, Combo Box, Drop-Down List, and Date Picker.
Warnings. These instructions are applicable to Word 2007 and later versions. In previous versions of Word, the steps are the same, but the menus are laid out differently so the form controls will not be in the same location on the menu bar. Tips. It's easier to do the overall formatting of the form document, such as titles and borders, once your table of form fields is complete.
This way, you don't have to go back and readjust them after the table has been resized. If you want to lock a field so that it can't be deleted by the user, right-click the field control, select 'Properties', and click 'Content control cannot be deleted.'