Capture Only the Data from a Form
The Problem:
Okay, I've got my colleagues filling in the form nowand they're filling in all the fields more or less correctly, which is great. The problem is, I need to extract the data from the form and dump it into our database. I guess I could write a macro to do so, but I don't know how.
The Solution:
Nor do you need to. Word can strip the data out of the form for you. Open the form template (or document), choose Tools 
Options, click the Save tab, and check the "Save data only for forms" box.
Once you've done this, Word selects the "Plain text" item in the "Save as type" drop-down list when the user displays the Save dialog box. When the user clicks the Save button, Word displays the File Conversion dialog box, allowing the user to check the encoding of the text file before saving it. The resulting text file, which is in comma-separated value (CSV) format, contains only the text entered in the form and the values of any checkboxes (1 if checked, 0 if unchecked).