Any text field, built-in or user-created, can contain alphanumeric characters.

when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.

Did you click the Edit Read Layout button and create a read layout with controls bound to the same fields as on the control layout? Unless you do this, Outlook has no way to know that you want to show the user the data from those fields.

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"nilknarf" wrote in message ...
that was great info... sorry if i'm an idiot but I would love to be able to
understand the vb a little difficult for me... I just want to make sure I can
create a form on exchange server and the form has various fields that need to
have alpha and numeric values (i.e. 6061-T651, QQ-A-250/11)

I was able to create all fields and seems to be working except one BIG issue
when I enter all data and send it to recipients only a few fields have data
in them usally the quanity and date but those formulas are easy.