Forms in Outlook

[Guest]

Does anyone know if I can send an email form out to a list of people, for
example asking people their name and address, and when the reply is sent,
Outlook automatically puts the data from the form into an existing Access
database stored on my local PC?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Unless you want to write code to parse message text bodies, that kind of operation is really going to be possible only if all the recipients work inside an organization that uses Exchange as its mail server.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Hollis Paul [MVP - Outlook]]

Does anyone know if I can send an email form out to a list of people, for
example asking people their name and address, and when the reply is sent,
Outlook automatically puts the data from the form into an existing Access
database stored on my local PC?

You can set up a distribution list, and send out your query to members of
the list. Then, you can use a rule to recognize responses from members of
the distribution list, and then run an application, or run a script, or move
it to a folder. That is about all you can do without doing the programming
to open a connection to your database, get the field data from the message,
and transfer that field message to the database, then close the database
connection. You can put all that in the script you start, or in the
application you start, or in an Exchange folder event script, which would
require that the database be on the server.

But, without programming, no.