Forms advice

[eidolon]

I need to be able to create a series of forms that I can distribute to employees so that they can complete the various sections and return to me.

Previously I'd just used Word forms however this has its limitations (ie. users can't spellcheck them or change fonts, both of which are sometimes necessary)

In the past I considered Acrobat forms but I believe that each user requires a full version of Acrobat writer to be able to save the form when they've made changes.

So, basically I need some advice on how I can create forms which are more flexible than the usual Word forms but don't require some strange unknown software to use. Any ideas?

 

[CF93]

Don't think all the users need the full Acrobat writer to do that.

I've only got the free Acrobat reader on my work pc, but was sent an Acrobat form a few days ago by an outside company we deal with - when I opened it, there was a message box along the top saying it had permissions for me to be able to fill in certain fields (it even highlighted them at the click of a button) and save it. Worked perfectly, and I was ableto email the completed form straight back.

Don't know if it can be used for changing fonts etc, as I've only ever converted Word docs to PDF read-only (on a different machine in another part of the office,) but it might be worth looking into it again?