Fill out form fields in a word 97-2007 document using POI

Question

I'm struggling how to read and fill out form fields (text, checkboxes) contained in a .dot document using Apache POI.

Sorry that I do not provide any code snippet but I have absolutely no idea how to read and fill out the fields.

Is there any code example available how to do so?

Answer 1

As stated in the comments it's probably not possible with the old .dot format.

But there are existing code samples which handle form fields with the newer xml format:

1. How to create checkbox and input text fields in docx document?
2. Problem with processing word document java