How to Create Fillable Forms in Word with Developer Tools | Make a Word Document Fillable

In this video, we’ll be showing you how to create fillable forms in Microsoft Word.

Fillable forms are like questionnaires that a user can fill in according to your specifications. They’re tricky to get to, but we’ll show you how to create them. Let’s create a fillable form in this document.

1. Click File - Options - Customize Ribbon.
Then click the Developer checkbox on the right. Finally, hit OK.
2. Click the Developer tab at the top.
3. Here are the content controls we can choose from.
4. Let’s start with a spot to fill in their name. Click the Plain Text control.
5. With the control selected, click Properties at the top.
6. Here we can give it a Title, change the color, and change the style.
7. We can also add a drop-down control. Insert it and then click Properties.
8. We can edit it like the plain text control, but then we can add options for the users to choose from.
9. Click Add and add in each of your options.
10. Now the user can only choose from those options.

It’s worth checking each of the content controls at the top and seeing what each one does!

❓💬 What other Developer features would you like to learn? Let us know in the comments below.

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[NorthFloridaLiving]

I looked at other videos on this and they were complicated. This got to the point and works.

[Sport-]

Short & easy - worked great. Thanks

[lillianfortuin]

Thank you so much. That was very useful

[MENTRU]

Thanks - works great with word BUT how do you get this to work with google docs (it downloads but to active ingredients)

[josejorgeromero]

Hi, is it possible to add a link into a protected document? Thanks!

[fercast]

Can you create a Video on how to add fillable fields on a Customized Real Estate Contract??? I don't seem to find any videos on YouTube where they show how to add fillable fields to ANY TYPE of Contracts. Thanks in advance.

[botrrun]

is there a way to create a field and limit the number of words the field can contain i.e. 250 words?

[StageMan]

How to resize the Plain Text Content Control box?

[lanegass]

Can you make it so you can attach a file within the form?