How to use Forms in an email

[Imajica12345]

Hi,

I created a word 2003 document with form fields. It works great except for
one thing...

If I click the E-Mail button to send the open document as an email to
someone, any check boxes or drop down boxes do not show their values or even
show up as an empty square box. Any text fields where i manually enter data,
works no problem.

On a similar topic... if the word document has a table and some text above
the table, the text above the table gets all out of whack when i send it as
an email. The info will end up either being way too far to the right or left
or sometimes even in the middle of the table. the only way I managed to fix
that was to add that data as part of a table and not have any text anywhere
that is not part of a table.

Michael

 

[Sninkle]

Instead of sending it as an email, have you tried attaching the word document
to an email message. This should retain all your original formatting.

 

[Imajica12345]

Hi,

Ya i know about that, however the people here are lazy and do not want to
save the document, then go find where they saved it to attach it. It
certainly would solve all my problems, but alas, the powers that be want to
do less work

Mike

 

[CyberTaz]

Ain't it sad how some folks prefer to spend more energy bemoaning not being
able to do the impossible than it would take to do it right in the first
place & get it over with Email content is either HTML or Plain Text -
period - neither of which support the structure of a Word document file. Has
anyone looked into the option of using File> Send To> Mail Recipient as
Attachment from within Word?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Moreover, in Word 2003, you can add a Send to Mail Recipient as Attachment
button to any toolbar.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org