E-mail Excel Attachments to People Who do not have Excel

[Guest]

I want to send a short Excel table in an e-mail to allow for recipents to
input their basic contact information and hit reply with the updated table.
The table will be 2 rows (1 row will be a header) and about 8 columns.
Alot of these e-mail recipients do not have Excel, and some have no MS Office
products at all.

I want an easy way to collect basic contact information from people and
import it into a large Excel spreadsheet for a club I am doing work for. Our
club does not have the money or knowledge to setup a input database on a web
site to collect such information.

How can this be accomplished?

-Rusty

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
one possibility would be to convert the excel file to a PDF file 8but
you need a PDF creator program for this -> Search Google for this)

Another option could be that the recipients download the free Excel
viewer from www.microsoft.com

 

[Guest]

Frank, I DO have Adobe Std, so I can create pdf documents. Are you sure that
I can send these pdf tables in an e-mail and have people make and save
changes to the pdf document with only the Adobe Reader? Please confirm if
you know and provide any suggestions you may know of.

Thanks so much Frank.

-Rusty

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
if the recipients have to make changes I can only think of two
solutions (as neither PDF files nor the Excel viewer would work in this
case):
- they have to buy Excel ;-) -> This is probably the easiest solution
(and the most expensive one)
- Your recipients could try to use the free Openoffice
(www.openoffice.org) -> Huge download > 30MB

So if none of these solutions is feasible (and I nearly suspect they
are not o.k. for your specific case) some other ideas:
- a web page would probably the easiest solution
- they oculd create a simpe text / *.csv file with a defined format
(could be opened / edited with Notepad) and you may give them a
template to fill-out their information