The company will have to make sure that its forms and designs are a unique standard throughout the company and not different in separate sections of the companies total make-up. If, by chance the presence of a universal form in a certain section of the company is a disadvantage rather than an advantage, the forms and policies of other companies may be looked at in order to correct the problem. When creating a form, companies may use the same standard techniques before making changes to make the form right for its company. Some basic techniques are making sure that the form is easy to fill in, takes minimal time to fill-in, it has a functional layout and it contains an attractive visual appearance. After using the basic standards of form design, the forms analysists', spend countless hours making the design a unique standard for their company, while considering every section of the company, so that the form will be useful to every member of the company.
Many companies use the same basic tools to design their forms.
Now, because of new technology and easier ways to design forms, most of these tools are obsolete. New computer hardware and software have provided many tools and accessories which have allowed companies to train employees to design forms using these advanced tools. Software packages such as Corel Draw, Microsoft Office, which includes Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint along with WordPerfect, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and many other software packages have made tasks easier to complete. Today most designers use computers especially Pentium computers because of their speed and performance. There are several different software packages that can be used to design the forms.