create electronic forms and sign digitally

[D_Concerned]

What is best practice for creating digital forms and signing them digitally.
Can scanned documents be used and signed digitally?

[Charles Kenyon]

This is way too big a question to get much of an answer just here. What you
are talking about may be what Word calls an "online form." Check this in
help. For more about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/FillinTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm.

Digitally signed? Do you mean an encrypted digital signature or do you mean
a graphic that looks like you wrote your signature. The former is
meaningless to most people, the latter has no security.

Scanned documents can be the underpinnings for a form but that is doing it
the hard way. It is usually easier to recreate the form in Word than to try
to place text fields on a scanned image. The scanned image will also make
your document files a lot bigger.

Hope this helps,
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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