Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 helps you to design and publish interactive, user-friendly form templates in design mode. Features of InfoPath 2007 is very good, you can insert standard form controls, such as text boxes or list boxes, on a form template. You can also insert controls that offer users the flexibility to add, remove, replace, or hide sections of a form.
The key features in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 are forms for information workers, forms for the enterprise, server forms for reach scenarios and seamless forms integration.
Forms for Information Workers: InfoPath 2007 makes it very easy for Information Workers to build forms to collaborate with their teams and/or integrate their forms in larger applications. It improves on the form template design-mode, and allows import and customization of converted forms. It is very tightly integrated with other Office applications.
InfoPath can import forms from Word, export form data to Excel, and allows forms to be sent in e-mail and created and edited from within Outlook. InfoPath forms are a first class citizen in SharePoint document libraries and can actively participate in Microsoft Office 2007 SharePoint Server workflow processes.
Forms for the Enterprise: InfoPath 2007 improves on the core rich form editing experience, and delivers much improved development support, a new managed object model for client and server forms, better extensibility using add-ins, additional controls, and re-usable template parts for componentized forms development and improved data interoperability.
Server Forms for Reach Scenarios: InfoPath 2007 provides ubiquitous form filling using Web-enabled forms. Users will be able to fill in forms using browsers on all platforms using the Office Forms Server. This will enable government-to-citizen and business-to-consumer scenarios by providing zero footprint form filling. Reach forms will also enable extranet scenarios and intranet usage for enterprises with partial deployment of the InfoPath rich client. The forms will be designed once for both rich client and Web browser use.
Seamless Forms Integration: ISVs, SIs, and IT developers will be able to incorporate the form editing functionality provided by InfoPath 2007 in their products and applications. They have now the ability to host the form editor as a control in their integrated rich clients.
