How to Create a Fillable PDF Form with a Submit Button in LibreOffice Writer - NO CODING REQUIRED

In this tutorial you will learn how to how to create a fillable PDF form with submit button in LibreOffice Writer. There is no coding required to create the fillable form. Your recipients can also select which mail client they want to use to submit the form back to you. This includes Outlook and Webmail clients.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:18 - Prep work
02:16 - Create form without table
02:56 - Use table to create form
05:00 - Textboxes
06:54 - Drop down list
08:35 - Numerical field
09:17 - Radio/option buttons
11:55 - Date field
12:45 - Checkboxes
15:53 - Export as PDF without submit sutton
18:40 - Create submit button
22:50 - Export as PDF with submit button
23:07 - Submit button send email properties
23:31 - Configure email client
22:54 - Saving and sending filled out form
24:37 - Receiving filled out form
24:49 - Wrap up

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[PEIRDO]

This video should have a lot more views. Easily the best break down on how to do all of the form options. Thank you.

[andrewdowniephd]

A very useful tutorial. A client has asked me to add a pdf form to his website. I've toyed with the notion of adding a multi-step form in Elementor Pro but sought a method of using a pdf form directly. Many thanks Melissa, this will be very useful.

[abaddon]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for this video it was by far the MOST helpful on YouTube. Hands down

[nmociahfgow]

Thank you Mel! several written guides skipped the setting to export it as an editable form and I was pulling my hair out for an hour! great video, very helpful!

[LitBoxTv]

The best tutorial on this topic hands down. Thank you so much. ❤

[DanielAlvarez-ve]

Thank you! This is exactly what I needed. Your video was so helpful to me that I could get my tasks done quicker and more easily.

[jimsmith]

Excellently done! You covered everything necessary without a lot of skipping around and/or unnecessary words. I really liked how you left in the mistake on the scrolling and explained how to avoid duplicating it. liked and subbed

[lucillevicente]

Thank you! Exactly what I needed, a step by step lesson. As a senior that learns computer skills as needed, I was so relieved to find a tutorial that explained everything slowly, clearly, and with lots of visual guidance. I can finally create an order form according to what I need without using predetermined templates. I certainly feel less computer-challenged. Wonder what else I will learn from you next? Keep up the great work!

[a.r]

That a girl Melissa! You are the best.

[valthompson]

Love this, but did I miss something! I made a form, and when I type into the text boxes, it doesn't overwrite the default text there (enter name here). You have to highlight it all to overwrite it. How do I properly make the text boxes overwrite when a user fills in the box?

[herseem]

Outstanding, really made me re-think how to get information from participants in a trial.

[abesternberg]

I really enjoyed this video. You did a great job and made building a form and adding a submit button easy to understand. Is there any way to do this so you get a .csv file that can be loaded into a spreadsheet?

[navioneer]

Mel,

Back in the bad old days... I used to have web pages that used HTML to make forms and at the end with the person submitted the form it would email a CSV list of the values that I could easily import to a spreadsheet. Now it's asking for trouble to have an open web site with a form on it. You end up with 99% garbage and 1% real people. Sending a form like this to a customer and just getting their info back is a much better scheme.

Is there any way to do that with LibreOffice Writer? It's nice that the sender can review the form as a PDF but all that gets in the way at my end. I just need their answers. I guess LibreOffice Writer is just being used as a fill-able PDF composer, so my question is, is there a mechanism for PDF to distill a form as I've described and mail it?

Thanks,
Bill

[paulg]

This is nice and clear. You covered just about everything someone might ask about form creation.
Many thanks

[michaelbishton]

VERY clear and well explained.
Thank you for producing it.

[CHX_]

Very clear, well-designed, informative video. Thank you.

[wrus]

what a brilliant tutorial. superb! Many thanks

[officialsofficials]

I followed your tutorial and the form looks OK and the submit button appears, but when I click on the submit button, the email box does not come up.

[Zenon-fgdw]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Exactly what I needed.

[timothymanz]

I was hoping you might consider a follow up video on Libre office forms going a bit more in depth with topics like "smart/responsive" form design. Like depending on radio button response(s) show/hide follow up dropdown selections. This is something specific I am looking for, but I feel there are more similar possibilities that are just beyond my know how at this stage. I'm guessing cascades of dependent dropdowns will require Libre Calc integrations which is a bit beyond what I'm attempting at this time (however I'm curious if that type of integration carries over into PDF form conversions?)