Other links on this page will take you to private funders' and federal agencies' pages as well as to additional sites which have comprehensive collections of forms and templates. Templates When you reach the site, you'll usually find a list of documents, occasionally offered in both Mac and DOS formats. Many of these are forms which may be downloaded, saved to a disk on your computer, and used as templates. Templates are protected forms. Since formatting and appearance is important when dealing with agency-prescribed forms, the use of form fields in template is helpful.
Users enter information only in form fields using text, check boxes, and drop-down menus.
These form fields protect the formatting and appearance of the form and have the added advantage of making it easier to move around the blank spaces of the form in your word processor. Most of the documents available online are templates rather than forms. Before you can enter data into a template, you need to download the template to your computer. Downloading a file on the Web is a simple matter. You select the document you want in the format you want and simply click on the link, which is usually the name of the file.