usable Word form w/formfields in Outlook

[Guest]

I would like to email a form in Outlook with check & text boxes to be filled out. The form is a Word table, and I can email it from Word, but the check & text boxes disappear. How can I make them show up and be accessible to the recipient? I want to have the form visible as the message content (using File | Send To | Mail Recipient from Word) so that the recipient can just open, read, complete boxes & reply.

I have done a brief search through this forum, and on www.outlookcode.com. I found one related post which indicated that this or something related is indeed possible, but that the checkbox values were disappearing when the form was emailed. There was no indication of how this could be done. I am familiar with VB.NET & VBA, especially in Word, but a complete newbie as far as Outlook forms and programming. Any help, tips, or direction to other resources would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What's the context? If you're sending this to people outside your company,
send them a Word document as an attachment and ask them to mail it back to
you. Otherwise, provide more details.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I would like to email a form in Outlook with check & text boxes to be

filled out. The form is a Word table, and I can email it from Word, but the
check & text boxes disappear. How can I make them show up and be accessible
to the recipient? I want to have the form visible as the message content
(using File | Send To | Mail Recipient from Word) so that the recipient can
just open, read, complete boxes & reply.

I have done a brief search through this forum, and on www.outlookcode.com.

I found one related post which indicated that this or something related is
indeed possible, but that the checkbox values were disappearing when the
form was emailed. There was no indication of how this could be done. I am
familiar with VB.NET & VBA, especially in Word, but a complete newbie as far
as Outlook forms and programming. Any help, tips, or direction to other
resources would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[Guest]

No, this is inside-only material. The form I want to email consists of a table listing contact info and history, then a check box to indicate a default action be taken, & a textbox where a different action can be entered. There is also a "check all" checkbox which will check or uncheck all the boxes in the checkbox column of the table. The "check-all" box is based on VBA code. We're using Office 2003 on WinXP & 2k.

Through links your website, I've found Help & KB files referring to the idea of an Outlook folder to store the file where other's can access it. Is this what I need to use?

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you want to use Outlook for this, then you need to build a custom Outlook
form, not a Word form. Each control on the form would be bound to an OUtlook
field that would store the data for transmission between sender and
recipient. The code would be VBScript, not VBA. You'd need to publish the
Outlook form to the Organizational Forms library on an Exchange server or to
each individual's Personal Forms library.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

No, this is inside-only material. The form I want to email consists of a

table listing contact info and history, then a check box to indicate a
default action be taken, & a textbox where a different action can be
entered. There is also a "check all" checkbox which will check or uncheck
all the boxes in the checkbox column of the table. The "check-all" box is
based on VBA code. We're using Office 2003 on WinXP & 2k.

Through links your website, I've found Help & KB files referring to the

idea of an Outlook folder to store the file where other's can access it. Is
this what I need to use?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the directions, Sue. They're very much appreciated.

Walter