InfoPath 2010: no publish button

Question

I am working on learning how to use InfoPath and I don't know what's going on.

If you, look at the screenshot attached you can see that there isn't a publish button only the 'Save a snapshot' one. Yet everywhere I read there should be a button in the list with the Print, Save & Send, etc yet I don't see one and you can see in the screenshot that it's not there.

Any idea what I'm missing?

Answer 1

That's because you opened the form template in Infopath Filler, i.e. in Preview of an XML data form created on the basis of that XSN form template.

Instead of double-clicking on the file in Windows Explorer, right click it and choose Design option (instead of Open to open in Infopath Filler) to open it in Infopath Designer.

Or open Infopath Designer and choose on ribbon File > Open > ...