Forms in Word 2000

I feel like I'm asking a really dumb question today, but I was wondering if someone could give me some quick tips on how to create a form in Word.

I'm whipping up a questionnaire, and typically I'd do it in Access, but most of the people I'll be sending this to do not have Access, so I'm stuck doing it in Word - which I apparently know nothing about!

Anyway, I want the receiver to open the template and have a form pop up which they can fill out, submit, and have it auto populate into the template. Anyone want to run down a quick step by step. Let's just do something basic, like the following:
Name:
Course Title:
Date Completed:

All help is greatly appreciated as the "help" files just don't seem to be working for me!

Thanks!
Ana

 

"form pop up which they can fill out, submit, and have it auto populate into the template "

You lost me on the "auto populate into the template" part.

If you are using (or can use) Outlook2000, then OL2000: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions might be of some interest.

 

regarding the auto-populate...

I've used a Word template that initially opens a form when you first open the template. This form has the appearance of a form like you'd see in Access. You can fill in the pertinent info and click OK. The information is then transferred to the template and all fields auto-populate throughout the document that correspond with those on the form.