...InDesign then Editable PDF...

Hi guys,
Any idea of how to make a registry form in InDesign that i could later make and editable PDF or Word document?
This is a sample of what i would like to do...
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ms6j5vmUwgyUuD6y1HMxVr6NgutT1
The idea is to export it later into PDF and the secretary could fill the lines into PDF...is it too complicated?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Sebastiao

yes a new IT guy would be good. Nice guy and make great coffee but his mind is somewhere out there.
Anyhow he finally installed the Acrobat Professional. I manage to make some fields editable, with forms at work, Acrobat Pro 8. Now i opened the PDF file at home with Acrobat Professional 7 and cannot see any of this forms filed.
I am sure that topic was discussed before and the search field does not send good results. Could you send me the link on the thread on how to make an "interactive" pdf with Acrobat Professional? Is important that the PDF is interactive so other users could open with the regular Acrobat Reader and fill the data.
Thanks again and best,
Sebastiao

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