"check boxes" do not show when emailed file/send to/mail recipien

[Roger M.]

I have a "fill-in" type form with fields and Check Boxes. The instructions
are to email the form by going to File/Send To/mail recipient. The field
contents show, but the Check Boxes do not appear when emailed in this
fashion. My desire is to post this form for use by employees.
We can get the check boxes to show only if creating an email separately and
adding the document as an attachment. We are using MS Outlook Express and
Mozilla Email. This is an extra step which defeats the purpose of posting
the form if the checked boxes do not appear.
Thanks

 

[Jonathan West]

I have a "fill-in" type form with fields and Check Boxes. The instructions
are to email the form by going to File/Send To/mail recipient. The field
contents show, but the Check Boxes do not appear when emailed in this
fashion. My desire is to post this form for use by employees.
We can get the check boxes to show only if creating an email separately
and
adding the document as an attachment. We are using MS Outlook Express and
Mozilla Email. This is an extra step which defeats the purpose of posting
the form if the checked boxes do not appear.
Thanks

I think you may be out of luck. When inserted into an Outlook Express email,
the Word document is converted to HTML. Word formfields in such files aren't
displayed in Internet Explorer or in Outlook Express (which uses the
Internet Explorer display code to render HTML emails)


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[Roger M.]

I think you may be out of luck. When inserted into an Outlook Express email,
the Word document is converted to HTML. Word formfields in such files aren't
displayed in Internet Explorer or in Outlook Express (which uses the
Internet Explorer display code to render HTML emails)


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Thanks Jonathan ...... I had an idea that it might be something like that, but I do know a group that uses the form with MS Outlook (not Express) and it seems to work for them. I appreciate the feedback.

Roger

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Roger M. was telling us:
Roger M. nous racontait que :

:

This is probably because they use Web Controls, not Formfields or ActiveX
controls.

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[Roger M.]

Thank you Jean-Guy,
Hopefully this will give me some direction to pursue also. I haven't
found any of this in the "books" and hope the "community" will fill-in my
blanks for technical help. Much appreciated,
Roger M.