--- title: "Find a form: templates and official forms like the W-9" description: "Find and fill a ready-made form: the template library (invoices, leases, NDAs) and official government forms such as the W-9, W-4, 1099 and passport forms." url: https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/find-form-templates-official-forms/ collection: "Forms & fillable PDFs" section: "Filling forms" updated: 2026-10-18 publisher: "PDFBetter (AI Generated Inc.)" --- # Find a form: templates and official forms like the W-9 > Open **Templates** in the sidebar and pick **Library** for fillable templates or **Official forms** for government forms such as the W-9. Click **Use template** or **Fill out** and a private copy opens in the editor. In the editor, **Find form** searches both. Do it in PDFBetter: https://pdfbetter.com/app/templates/ ## From the dashboard 1. **Open Templates**: Click **Templates** in the sidebar, or **New** → **From a template**. 2. **Pick a tab**: **Library** has PDFBetter's original fillable templates, such as invoices, leases and NDAs, with a search box and categories. **Official forms** lists government forms, grouped by the agency that issues them. **My templates** holds [your own templates](https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/reusable-form-templates/), and **Team** appears when you're in a team. 3. **Open a library template**: Click a template to see its pages, the fields it has, what to **Have this ready** and **Similar templates**. Click **Use template**. **Blank PDF** downloads the empty template instead. 4. **Or fill an official form**: Click **Fill out** on the form. PDFBetter fetches the issuer's current PDF (**Fetching the current form…**) and opens a copy with its own fillable fields. **Instructions** opens the issuer's page about the form. 5. **Fill, sign, send**: Your copy opens in **Edit & fill** mode. [Fill it out](https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/fill-out-pdf-form/), sign it, download it or send it for signature. The template itself never changes. ## From inside the editor Click **Find form** in the editor's top bar (on a phone: **⋯** → **Find form**). The **Find a form** dialog searches the template library and official forms together; type a form number such as `W-9` or what it's for, such as `lease`. For each result, **Open new** opens it as a separate document and **Add pages** adds it to the end of the document you're editing. You can also search templates and forms with `⌘` `K` in the dashboard. ## Which official forms are listed The list follows your [app language](https://help.pdfbetter.com/getting-started/change-app-language/). In English you see United States federal forms, such as IRS W-9, W-4, W-8BEN, 1099-NEC, 1099-MISC, 1040 and its schedules, SS-4 and 4506-T, plus Form I-9 and the DS-11 passport application. In German, French, Spanish and Japanese you see forms from those countries' agencies instead. The library templates are written for each market too, not translated word for word. > **Some agencies don't allow fetching:** A few issuers don't let other sites fetch their forms. Those show **Get it from …** instead of **Fill out**: download the PDF from the issuer, then click **Then fill it here** to open it with [Fill PDF](https://pdfbetter.com/tools/fill-pdf/). ## Is it the current version? Official forms come straight from the issuer's website. PDFBetter keeps a copy for up to a week and then fetches it again, so you get the version the agency publishes; where the issuer dates its revisions, the revision shows next to the form's name. PDFBetter doesn't give tax or legal advice; read the **Instructions** to know which form you need and how to file it. ### Do I need an account? No, you can open and fill templates and official forms as a guest. Downloading the filled copy needs a free account, like any [edited document](https://help.pdfbetter.com/editing/download-edited-pdf/). ### Can I file a tax form through PDFBetter? No. PDFBetter fills and signs the PDF. Submit it the way the issuer's instructions say, for example by giving a W-9 to whoever requested it. ### I can't find the form I need. Upload the PDF you have and fill it; if it has no fields, [detect them with AI](https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/detect-form-fields-with-ai/) or type anywhere with the **Text** tool. ## Related articles - [Fill out a PDF form](https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/fill-out-pdf-form.md): Open the PDF and stay in Edit & fill with Fill out selected. Type into the form's own fields, press Tab to move between them, and click anywhere on a flat form to add text. Then choose Done → Download. - [Save a form as a reusable template](https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/reusable-form-templates.md): Choose Done → Save as template in the editor, or Save as template from a document's menu in My documents. Open it later from Templates with Use template: each use creates a new document and the template stays unchanged. - [Create a new PDF from scratch](https://help.pdfbetter.com/editing/create-blank-pdf.md): Click New in the sidebar and choose Blank document. PDFBetter opens one empty page in the editor (US Letter or A4, depending on your language), where you can type, add images and shapes, build form fields and add more pages. - [Change the language of the app](https://help.pdfbetter.com/getting-started/change-app-language.md): PDFBetter speaks English, Español, 日本語, Français and Deutsch. In the app, go to Settings → Profile & signatures → Language and pick an App language; it also sets the language of emails we send you. On the website, use the language menu in the header or footer. - [Detect form fields automatically with AI](https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/detect-form-fields-with-ai.md): In Create form mode, choose Detect fields, pick the pages and run it. PDFBetter proposes a field for each blank, box and signature line; you tick the ones to keep and choose Add. Each run costs 3 AI credits. --- Source: https://help.pdfbetter.com/forms/find-form-templates-official-forms/ · PDFBetter Help Center · Last checked against the product 2026-10-18. Questions: support@pdfbetter.com