Microsoft InfoPath 2003

Gather information flexibly and efficiently in rich, dynamic forms and more effectively share, reuse, and repurpose information throughout your team or organization. InfoPath 2003 helps improve collaboration and decision-making to positively impact your business.

Information collected with InfoPath 2003 can be integrated with a broad range of business processes because InfoPath 2003 supports any customer-defined Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema and integrates with Web services. As a result, InfoPath 2003 can help you connect directly to organizational information and then act on it, which leads to greater business impact.

Gather Information More Flexibly and Efficiently
Efficiently collect the information needed to make better-informed decisions.

• Make it easy to collect the right information the first time with data validation, screen tips, and conditional formatting.
• Personalize the information being captured. Add sections to the form as you go to make the information you gather more meaningful.
• Work with forms online or offline to conveniently gather and manage information anywhere, anytime.
• Enjoy the familiar Microsoft Office System environment, which minimizes training time and provides authoring features like the spelling checker, font formatting, and other familiar tools.

Connect People, Information, and Processes More Effectively
Enable teams and organizations to easily reuse and repurpose the information they collect. The information can then be shared across business processes and organizations.

• Share, reuse, and repurpose information across systems and processes with support for Web services.
• Enhance team collaboration by combining InfoPath 2003 and Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services.

Easily Develop and Deploy Rich, Dynamic Forms
Create robust forms solutions and to deploy and maintain forms solutions across an organization.

• Build your own forms for gathering information in the WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") design mode or work with 25 ready-to-use samples.
• Include powerful features like data validation in your forms without writing code.
• Create forms solutions using existing customer-defined schemas.
• Publish your forms to a shared network folder, a Web server, a Windows SharePoint Services form library, or send them by e-mail.
• Make sure the most up-to-date form is always available with silent and automatic downloads.