Using the InfoPath Designer interface

Welcome to the Microsoft InfoPath Designer 2010.…This designer is built with the same interface that you see in other Office 2010 applications.…We have our familiar Ribbon here and we have a Task pane that you'll see far…more often here than you do, for example, in Word or in Excel.…So let's take a look at the interface and see what we've got going on here.…First, whenever we choose a document type, we come in and there is a blank form…that may have a little something going on here.…The tabs aren't necessarily arranged in order, and I will tell you that to begin with.…

For example, we would often, if not always, want to begin on the Page Design…tab, rather than the Home tab, because this is where we find templates and…themes, that sort of thing.…But aside from the order, what you will find is a really nice set of tools.…For example, here are our text formatting tools.…We have a relatively short style list, but it works.…Then we have controls that we will use as containers in our form to allow our…