Provides information about the InfoPath 2013 update KB3114946 that was released on May 3, 2016.

This article describes update 4022181 for Microsoft InfoPath 2013 that was released on December 4, 2018. This update also applies to Office Home and Student 2013 RT.

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.

This article provides an overview of how you can extend and enhance your custom program or Web form by using one of the controls included with InfoPath and InfoPath Forms Services.

To create this type of form template, you design a browser-compatible form template in InfoPath, publish it to a server running InfoPath Forms Services, and enable it for use on the Web.

InfoPath Forms Services is a server technology that allows users to fill out Microsoft Office InfoPath forms by using a Web browser. Users don't need InfoPath installed on their computers to fill out an InfoPath form, nor are they required to download anything extra from the Web.

Humongous Insurance wants to use InfoPath and InfoPath Forms Services to allow customers, insurance agents, and related businesses to use online forms to process their insurance claims.

Your expectation is that external users do not have InfoPath installed on their computers and that internal users do have InfoPath. To accommodate users who do and do not have InfoPath installed, you could design two distinct form templates — one that is browser-compatible and one that is not.

When you design your form template, you can choose to create a form template that can be opened or filled out in either InfoPath or a Web browser. If the form template can be opened and filled out by using a browser, then it is called a browser-compatible form template.

InfoPath includes two form template importers, which help you convert an existing Microsoft Office Excel workbook or Microsoft Office Word document into an InfoPath form template. In the following example, the designer is customizing the import options for a Word document.