Create a fill-in form for your company like the example
listed here. Use your company's name and address
on the form. Use the table feature to create an Invoice for a customer by
completing the following steps:
Click File and then New.
At the new dialog box with the General tab selected,
make sure blank Document is selected in the list box.
Click Template in the Create New section at the bottom
right corner of the dialog box.
Click OK or press Enter.
At the document screen, make sure the default font
is 12-point Times New Roman (If now, display the font dialog box, change
the size to 12, and then click the Default button. At the question asking
if you want to change the default font, click Yes.)
Display the Forms toolbar (View-Toolbars-Form).
Click the Draw Table button on the Forms toolbar (the
one that displays a pencil icon).
Drag while holding down the left mouse button to create
the table.
Use the buttons on the Tables and Borders toolbar
to draw the table lines as shown in the example above.
Key in the company name and address information in
the top of the form.
Press the enter key twice, then type in Account Number:.
After keying the colon, press the spacebar once, and then insert a form
field where the account number will be keyed by completing the following
steps:
Turn on the display of the Forms toolbar by clicking
View, pointing to Toolbars, and then clicking Forms.
At the Forms toolbar, click the Text Form Field
button. (The form field displays as a shaded area in the document
screen.)
Press the enter key twice more then key Invoice Number:
and insert the Text Form Field as you did in the previous step.
Press the enter key once, key in Date:, press the
spacebar once, and insert then insert a Text Form Field that inserts the
current date by completing the following steps:
Click the Text Form Field button on the Forms toolbar.
Click the Form Field Options button on the Forms toolbar.
At the Text Form Field Options dialog box, click the
down-pointing triangle at the right side of the type text box, and then
click Current date at the drop-down list.
Click OK or press Enter to close the Text Form Field
Options dialog box.
Press the right arrow key to deselect the field and
move the insertion point to the right side of the field. (You can also
position the mouse pointer immediately right of the field and then click
the left mouse button.)
Change the text alignment to Align Center for specific
cells by completing the following steps:
Select the cells that will contain the text Date,
Description, Amount, and Ref #.
Click the down-pointing triangle at the right
side of the Align Top Left button on the Tables and Borders Toolbar.
At the drop-down palette of choices, click align
Center (second option from the left in the second row).
Turn off the display of the Tables and Borders
toolbar.
Key the text in the cells as shown in the example
above.
To insert the three text form fields in the Date column,
insert the first text form field and then press the Enter key. This moves
the insertion point down to the next line within the cell. Continue in
this manner until all three text form fields are inserted. Complete similar
steps for the three text form fields in the Description, amount, and Ref
# columns.)
After the form is completed, protect the document
by clicking the Protect Form button on the Forms toolbar.
Horizontally center the table.
Spell check and proofread the blank form.
Save your document with the name Proj19.
Input a customer who purchases at least three items
your company carries. Save this form with the name Prj19C.
