From the course: Word 2016: Forms in Depth

What you should know before watching this course

From the course: Word 2016: Forms in Depth

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What you should know before watching this course

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- [Narrator] There are only a couple of things you need to be successful in this course. First, you need some software, and if you are working along with me, you should be using Word 2016, part of the Microsoft Office 2016 Suite, or perhaps a download of Office 365. You'll also be okay if you're using Word 2013, it's close enough for our purposes for this feature set. You also need to arrive with some experience. This is not a beginning Word course. I'm assuming that you have some skills working with a relatively recent version of Word. You don't have to be a Word 2016 expert, or even experienced in Word 2016, but in some recent version of Word, you should be very comfortable creating documents, saving documents, manipulating tables, inserting and deleting rows and columns. If you're new to Word, or new to Word 2013, Word 2016, for example, if you're upgrading from 2007 or 2003, then you might consider spending a little time in the Word 2016 Essential Training course, then return back here. Enough about your software set and skills. What about the people who will use the forms you create? We need to think about them now. And that's because advanced features like forms are often different in the various versions of desktop software. Forms that you create in Word 2016 for Windows are saved using the DOCX format and can be opened and used in Word for Windows 2016 and 2013. They can be opened in Word 2007 and 2010 as well. But some of the newer form controls were not included in both of these versions and therefore aren't supported. Older unsupported versions of Word, all use the same form controls from Word 97 through 2003, not the new controls in Word 2016. Word for Mac 2016 uses a similar set of controls to Word 2003. So forms that you create in Word for Windows 2016 can't be used by Word for Mac users. This course focuses on the full featured form tools that are compatible with Word 2016, 2013, and with a few exceptions, Word 2010 and 2007. It's always best to develop forms in the version of Word that your intended users are working with. That way you won't accidentally include form features that they won't be able to use. If the majority of your users are in the prior supported version of Word for Windows, look at Word 2010 forms in depth, or Word 2007 forms in depth, whichever is appropriate in your organization. But if you are ready to create amazing forms for your colleagues who are working primarily in Word for Windows 2016 and 2013, you were in absolutely the right place, and this is your course, let's get going.

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