Thanks again peeps for all the replies and the advice.

I beginning to think, looking at the options available to me that it may well be better for me to leave as is.

I've made the Word document work on my Android tablet for the bits that I need to fill-in myself before it gets passed to the Manager by using the pen on my tablet to manually draw a tick mark in the required box or using an emoji tick.

I wanted to be able to make it work the same as the pdf form by simply tapping in each particular area but I'm seeing now that there are limits to what can be done that will transfer over to the Android versions OK.

Cheers anyway, it's appreciated.