MS Word 2007 (MS Office Suite 2007) offers a new "ribbon" toolbar to direct work flow, rather than the menu-based tasks of earlier versions. At first look, it seems very confusing, but I think we'll find 2007 makes it easier to remember how to carry out multi-step tasks that we don't do often enough to make it automatic.
Create a form and invite people to fill it out. They can respond on the web or directly from email -- there's no need for them to sign in. Automatically, their answers will be saved for you in a spreadsheet at Google Docs. That spreadsheet then can be edited, saved, shared, or exported into your own local database system for future management.
Tip:
The text you enter for each Question Title will become a column header -- a merge/sort field -- in the final spreadsheet of responses.
The result is a standard spreadsheet in Google Docs that you can choose to sort, edit, print, share with others, or export in CSV, XLS, ODS, TXT, HTML or PDF format.
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