Did you know that you can create forms in Word that people can fill out? When you hear about fillable forms, it’s almost always about Adobe and PDF documents, because that’s the most popular format.
How to Create a Fillable Form in Microsoft Word
However, Word is also a fairly powerful tool that allows you to quickly create forms that you can print or email, etc. If you need to create a survey that will be sent to many people and you want all responses to be counted automatically, it is best to use Google Docs to create the survey.
In this article, I'll show you how to create a form with text boxes, checkboxes, a date picker, and a list box. You can also make your forms look a lot nicer if you use tables to organize everything.
By default, you can't create forms in Word unless you enable the Developer tab in the ribbon. Because it's not used by many people, Microsoft has disabled it by default. To enable the tab, click File, and then click Options.