Find content about InfoPath 2010 and 2013

Looking for Microsoft InfoPath help and resources? You've come to the right place. The following resource guide contains useful links to InfoPath 2010 and 2013. Because InfoPath 2010 was such a major release of new features, InfoPath 2013 was only upgraded a little, and so the help topics for the 2010 release are still appropriate for the 2013 release.

Note: Although Microsoft is not continuing development of InfoPath products, it will continue support of these products until 2023. For more information, see Update on InfoPath and SharePoint Forms.

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Overview and Basics

Designing Forms

Adding Controls

Working with Data

Using Rules

Using InfoPath in SharePoint Products

Accessibility, security and privacy

More information: Qdabra, sites, blogs, and books

Overview and Basics

• Introduction to Microsoft InfoPath

• What's new in Microsoft InfoPath 2010

• Getting started with InfoPath

• Basic tasks in InfoPath

• Submit and save form data

• Publish a form

• Overview of form templates and modes

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Designing Forms

• Introduction to designing a form in InfoPath

• Lay out an InfoPath form

• Add a text area to a form template

• Add, delete, and switch views in a form

• Verify the design of a form

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Adding Controls

• Introduction to controls

• Add containers and group controls

• Enable selection through choice controls (check and list boxes)

• Add buttons

• Include attachments, pictures, or hyperlinks

• Add repeating data controls

• Add picker controls

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Working with Data

• Data connections overview

• Add a connection to receive external data

• Filter the data that is displayed in a control

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Using Rules

• Introduction to rules

• Add formatting rules

• Add rules for validation

• Add rules for performing other actions

• Add Formulas and Functions in InfoPath

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Using InfoPath in SharePoint Products

• Configure InfoPath Forms Services

• InfoPath features unavailable in Web browser forms

• Customize a SharePoint list form

• Edit list forms using InfoPath in SharePoint Designer

• Use the InfoPath Form Web Part

• SharePoint List Data Connections in InfoPath 2010

• Form-Driven Mashups using InfoPath

• Create Form Driven Mashups with the InfoPath Form Web Part

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Accessibility, security and privacy

• Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft InfoPath

• Design an accessible form template (2013)

• Design an accessible form template (2010)

• Security in InfoPath forms

• Digital Signatures in InfoPath

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More information: Qdabra, sites, blogs, and books

• Qdabra Software

• Microsoft InfoPath Blog

• InfoPath Dev

• Using Microsoft InfoPath 2010 with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Step by Step

• Plan InfoPath Forms Services (SharePoint Server 2010)

• InfoPath forms administration (SharePoint Server 2010)

• InfoPath 2010 (MSDN)

• Microsoft InfoPath 2010 Product Guide

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