How to create a fillable form on adobe, but save it as a word document where the blue fields show?

Hello,

I am new to adobe, and am finding it very confusing and frustrating.

In an attempt to try and learn the program, and get some work done at the same time..

I am trying to create a fillable "letter" on Adobe, but then save it as a Word Document where the blue fillable fields still show? I believe that is what I need to do?

I have a thank you letter typed out,  after I pressed "prepare form". On top of letter, I entered a date field and a blue fillable field is placed.

Under, I have "Dear" written and placed a text field next to it for the recipients name.

So it looks like:

*Date Field*

Dear *Text Field"

body of letter here, etc etc.

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This is supposed to be a template for our office of a thank you letter we send to our customers after our services are rendered. Where they can just re-enter the date and name and reuse it over and over again.

I need to send it to my secretarys computer, whom does not have an Adobe Subscription. I have it on my personal account/computer though, the business does not.

So when I save it to my computer as an adobe pdf, just a normal pdf, and then go into my local computer files and re open it, it opens fine and the blue fields show. When I save/export it as a Word DocX, and open that one, it opens in word but the blue boxes are not visable or there in the first place. You can just type where the boxes are as if it was a normal word document.

When it comes to all the adobe settings and document properties and what not, I am completely lost, it is super overwhelming.

I just want to create this document so when I send it to people, or in this case my secretary, and they save it to their computer and open it, the blue fillable fileds show and the date field works, and she can select the date and it will automatically fill it out in the format I chose in properties. 

Of course I could just use a normal word document and erease the name and date and do it that way, but in an attempt to try and learn Adobe more, I would really love to figure this out.

I dont think I could send it as a pdf or adobe pdf to her computer because wouldnt she need an adobe subscription to see the blue fields and use them?

Side note: Is there even a difference between a pdf and an "Adobe PDF", which is what it says when you press "save as" on adobe?