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Building the Form
6 Lessons-
StartForms and Tables - adding a table to hold the form
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StartFormatting the table, borders shading and resizing
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StartContent Controls - what are they?
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StartAdding Content Controls
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StartA more complex layout - Building the Employee Contact Details Form
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StartAdding Content Controls to the Employee Contact Details Form
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Enforcing Protection in Windows and Editing Templates
1 Lesson-
StartEdit the template and enforce protection
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If you are on a Mac
11 Lessons-
StartIf you are on a Mac
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StartSet up your Styles
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StartPage Margins
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StartThe Koffee Island Form the Mac version
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StartShow the Developer Ribbon
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StartBuild the Koffee Island Enquiry Form
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StartFormat the Table
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StartContent Controls on Mac
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StartAdd Content Controls
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StartProtect the form and Save as Template
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StartWhat do you send?
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How to Create Fillable Forms in Word
Save oodles of time with fillable forms - from checklists to choices!
Course Summary
Learn how to use Content Controls to add fillable areas to your documents. Create a snazzy checklist or a contact details form. How about a form that allows the person filling it in to make a choice of options? Could be just a list or even large areas of text and images. Enrol to lean!
What is a Fillable Form? and why do I need one?
We have all filled them in at some point. Those forms that ask you for details and have defined place holder to enter the answers.
Just a few types of Fillable forms:
- Checklist
- Letter with different elements to choose from
- Contact Details
- Booking Forms
Who would use a Fillable Form?
There are many use cases for Fillable Forms in business - whether that is your own business or that of clients that you support.
Imagine that you work for a trainer or coach - they will need to gather information about booking in clients.
Things like :
Name, Address, Contact Details, Objectives.
They may need to gather feedback on a program - testimonials etc.
Or they may need to respond to enquiries in different ways - using Fillable Forms you can construct a response that offers a choice of options. Magic.
Examples used in the course
Koffee Island is a chain of coffee shops run by Matt Salmon with the able help of Lisa ( his Microsoft Office Guru).
Koffee Island has meeting rooms along with a great coffee shop experience and those meeting rooms need to be booked.
In the course I show you how to create a booking form for a meeting room, including Date of Meeting, How Many People, What refreshments are required.
Koffee Island also has an Employee Contact Details form that lists the employee details along with emergency contacts too.
Plus the real magic happens when the staff at Koffee Island respond to an enquiry, they can choose which of the coffee shops to focus on in one document by choosing from a selection of options.
Is this course for Windows or Mac?
This course covers both Microsoft Word on the Windows platform and the Mac platform.
Is the functionality the same on Windows and Mac?
No it is not. There is more functionality for Fillable Forms for Word on the Windows Platform that the Mac platform .
On Windows - there are more Content Control types - this means you have more choice of the kind of fillable areas you want to add to your forms. The way that Windows handles protecting the form is different to the Mac too.
This course covers both platforms!
In the course I show you how this works on both Windows and Mac - you can choose to take the whole course so that you can see what is possible (on Windows) or you can simply focus on the Mac section if that is what you use.
Don't take my word for it!
"“I really like Shelley's courses. She has a clear and easy to follow teaching style. In 'How to Create Fillable Forms' I've learned about the functions of the Developer ribbon which will mean I'll be able to create a bespoke Returns Form for a client who has an online shop.”
Freya Henderson – Virtual Office Orkney."
Course Curriculum
Shelley Fishel
Meet Shelley Fishel: Your Microsoft Office Maestro
Shelley's journey didn't follow the traditional path. At just 17, she left school to run her father's business—a experience that gave her an unshakeable understanding of what it means to juggle multiple responsibilities and keep everything running smoothly. Sound familiar?
Twenty-five years ago, when Shelley re-entered the workforce as her children grew, she discovered her true calling: helping assistants like you master the tools that make or break your day. She started by streamlining admin processes, then found her passion for training, eventually launching her own company focused exclusively on what PAs and EAs need to know.
Why Assistants Love Learning from Shelley
She gets how you think. Shelley understands that you're the lynchpin holding everything together. You have diverse responsibilities, multiple contacts, and one overarching goal: helping your executive perform at their absolute best. She's designed her training around this reality.
She speaks your language. No tech jargon or unnecessary complexity. Shelley breaks down Microsoft Office features into simple, practical steps that you can implement immediately. As she puts it, she's a "lover of lists" who helps you get things done "quicker, easier, and more elegantly—without drowning in Google first."
She's proven her expertise. With over 2.5 million books sold worldwide (translated into multiple languages), 20+ years of hands-on training experience, and 10,000+ training hours under her belt, Shelley knows Microsoft Office inside and out. But more importantly, she knows how to teach it in a way that sticks.
The "Angel on Your Shoulder" Approach
As one client perfectly said: "Shelley's like the angel on my shoulder." Her bite-sized lessons (most under 10 minutes) let you solve problems faster than drinking a cup of tea. No more frantic Googling while
while your executive waits for results.
Real results: One client reduced a 3-hour monthly task to 30 minutes after just one training session—reclaiming nearly a full day every month.
When you learn from Shelley, you're getting a partner who understands the unique pressures of supporting executives and wants to help you feel confident, capable, and truly indispensable to your team.
More learner words
I have just completed a course from Shelley Fishel entitled HOW TO CREATE FILLABLE FORMS and whereas I am not a VA I do produce a series of support material for my online training courses at JFI Store and it is for these that I wanted to be able to create forms that my learners can fill in with information and key learning points when they finish my various courses in management, team leadership, quality and change. I had learned how to do this years ago (and forgotten), this course took me through the process, step-by-step, so clearly that it wasn't long before I was creating my learning support material with fillable forms once more. Thank you so much Shelley, your style is consistent, clear and yes, I went back over a few things again and again to make sure I really got it. Thank you.
I love Shelley's calm approach to everything Microsoft. I can now make forms to send to my clients - which I'd been putting off! I really like the way the lessons are designed in bite sized chunks so you can try a section at a time on your own documents or the included templates. I also have a couple of new buttons on my express bar and learnt tab would get me new lines in a table!
Course Pricing
How to Create Fillable Forms
£297
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How to create fillable forms for you and your clients.