We use Word to create forms that we send using Outlook.

We'd like to use checkboxes at the top of our e-mail communications to
indicate the target audience. The idea is that we check the boxes
before sending the e-mail, and then our audience can easily determine
whether tthey need o read the message

We've tried using Word's Checkbox Form Field, but the boxes we create
vanish when the document is e-mailed.

We can see the checkboon screen, check and uncheck them without issue,
and they print correctly on the hard copy, but the checkboxes
completely vanish when we e-mail the document. We're sending the
documents via Outll,using the e-mail toolbar in Word. I've tried e-mail
the document as both protected and non-porotected, but that doesn't
seem to matter.

I'm wondering why this happens?

Word forms just don't translate to email messages as you're expecting them to. You might consider using a graphic to convey the same information.

--
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

"Jim Erwin" wrote in message oups.com...
We use Word to create forms that we send using Outlook.

We'd like to use checkboxes at the top of our e-mail communications to
indicate the target audience. The idea is that we check the boxes
before sending the e-mail, and then our audience can easily determine
whether tthey need o read the message

We've tried using Word's Checkbox Form Field, but the boxes we create
vanish when the document is e-mailed.

We can see the checkboon screen, check and uncheck them without issue,
and they print correctly on the hard copy, but the checkboxes
completely vanish when we e-mail the document. We're sending the
documents via Outll,using the e-mail toolbar in Word. I've tried e-mail
the document as both protected and non-porotected, but that doesn't
seem to matter.

I'm wondering why this happens?

Sue -- thanks for the information.

We're also having an issue where our table cells are resizing
themselves when we e-mail them from Word. I'm guessing this is a
similar issue where Outlookd doesn't quite handle Word docs the way we
would like it too.

Jim Erwin


Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
Word forms just don't translate to email messages as you're expecting them to. You might consider using a graphic to convey the same information.

--
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

"Jim Erwin" wrote in message oups.com...
We use Word to create forms that we send using Outlook.

We'd like to use checkboxes at the top of our e-mail communications to
indicate the target audience. The idea is that we check the boxes
before sending the e-mail, and then our audience can easily determine
whether tthey need o read the message

We've tried using Word's Checkbox Form Field, but the boxes we create
vanish when the document is e-mailed.

We can see the checkboon screen, check and uncheck them without issue,
and they print correctly on the hard copy, but the checkboxes
completely vanish when we e-mail the document. We're sending the
documents via Outll,using the e-mail toolbar in Word. I've tried e-mail
the document as both protected and non-porotected, but that doesn't
seem to matter.

I'm wondering why this happens?