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Old September 13th 07, 07:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
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Default How do I create a "fillable" message form in Outlook?

I came across this thread while trying to solve a similar problem. Perhaps
you can help me.

I created, and now support, a web site for my church. I use Word so that,
when someone else takes over the support, they can do so without extensive
knowledge of sophisticated software. I have been very pleased with this
process so far. Now I have a problem.

My church wants to have members of the congregation complete a form on-line
and submit it via email to an office member. I've created the form on a web
page and everything looks good. I see the "top of form" line, all of the
text boxes along with the explanatory data, and the "bottom of form" line. I
included the Submit button, highlighted the button, and inserted a mailto
hyperlink.

I tested this in Word and pressed Ctrl and the submit button. The email box
came up but there was nothing in the message box. I tested this with the
Submit button inside AND outside the form. What am I doing wrong and how do
I make this work? They need this form as soon as possible so I really need
some help.


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

A quick check at your favorite search engine for "survey" will turn up services to help with this. I have never explored their costs. Compare with the cost of teaching yourself web programming or giving your customers a poor impression.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"SouthAfricanStan" me@there wrote in message ...
I have a similar need - to request viewers to complete a form, and on
hitting the "Submit" button, an email containing the completed form is sent
automatically to my email. My problem is that I know NOTHING about web pages
and would like to know if there are perhaps (if possible, free) internet
sites that will fill my needs. Perhaps I should post to another group? Any
advice will be appreciated.



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