This crisp tutorial guides you on how to create a fillable form in Word using Python. It introduces the detailed steps, important classes, and methods required to perform this task. You will also get a runnable sample code that demonstrates how to make a fillable form in Word using Python by adding a textbook and a combo box control in the Word file and then saving it in MS Word-supported formats like DOCX, DOC, or others.

Steps to Create Form Fields in Word using Python

1. Configure the environment to use Aspose.Words for Python via .NET to create a form
2. Create or load a Word file using the Document class object for creating a fillable form
3. Instantiate a DocumentBuilder class object using the loaded Word file for inserting controls
4. Create a textbook control using the insert_text_input() method in the DocumentBuilder class
5. Insert a line break to render further controls on the next line
6. Insert a checkbox control using the insert_check_box() method
7. Save the resultant Word file having form controls in it

These steps present the process to make a fillable form in Word using Python. In the first step, you may load the Word file and then instantiate the DocumentBuilder class object using the loaded Word file. The DocumentBuilder class object contains all the methods that are required to add different types of controls in a form like different types of breaks, checkboxes, combo boxes, text boxes, etc.

Code to Create a Form in Word using Python

This code demonstrates how to create a form in Word using Python with the help of methods available in the DocumentBuilder class. We have used insert_text_input() method for creating the text box control that takes TextFormFieldType enumerator to customize the input like REGULAR, NUMBER, DATE, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, and CALCULATED are used to control the input behavior. Similarly, when we create a check box, we assign a name to it that automatically creates a bookmark with the same name.

This article has taught us to create controls in a form in a Word file. If you want to learn the process to insert comments in a Word file, refer to the article on how to insert comment in Word using Python.