How to Design a Form with Microsoft Word
In this section, we're going to design a form. For this project, you'll need the Drawing tools. To ensure that they are displayed, click on View > Toolbars > Drawing. You've met the drawing toolbar before.
· Open a new Word document
· Click on File from the menu bar
· From the drop down menu, click on Page Setup
· On the margins tab strip, enter the following values:
Top 2 cmBottom 2 cmLeft 1.5 cmRight 1.5 cm
Those margins will give us a nice wide page to work on. A good idea now is to give ourselves the space we need down the page. To do this all that's required is to hit your Enter key on your keyboard. Keep hitting it until the cursor is about half way down the page.
When your cursor is half way down the page, position it back up to the top, so that it's flashing on the very first line.
· Type in "Personal Details"
· Highlight the entire line
· Add a Shade to the background. Click on Format > Borders and Shading. From the dialogue box, click the Shading tab strip. Select a Fill colour for your background)
· With the text highlighted, choose a font, and a font size
· Centre your text
· Your should now have something like the green title at the top of this page
It's a good idea to add the text first, before you start adding boxes. That way, you can line the boxes up with the text, and not the other way around. To do this, we'll set up some Tab stops.
· Click on Format from the menu bar
· From the drop down menu select Tabs
· Enter the following tab stop positions:
1.5 cm5.5 cm12 cm
Click OK when you've set your Tab positions. Now for the text:
· Tab across to the first tab stop position by hitting the Tab key on your keyboard
· Type in "Title"
· Hit the tab key again to jump to the second tab stop position
· Type in "First Name"
· Hit the tab key again to jump to the third tab stop position
· Type in "Surname"
· Make the text bold
