emailed web reply forms.

[Rick]

I just got publisher for the main purpose of doing email
newsletters for clients. The problem is when I insert a
web reply form in the document (Website or Publisher saved
document) so that the client can respond to get additional
information, the web form messes up. The names for each
field appear where they are supposed to on the emailed
document, but the fields that get filled in are not
aligned with the field names, even though they are on the
original document. The fields are off quite a bit in the
emailed document, like half a page away down and half a
page away to the right of the rest of the document. This
occurs even if I use a stock web reply form from publisher
without making any changes to it, so I'm pretty certain
it's not something I changed. Any ideas? Please?

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Rick this is the vagaries and nature of HTML.

HTML is far from an accurate medium like word processing files.

HTML is reliant on so many options that are well outside of your control.

If the e-mail is only coming to you for information to send out further
information to the request, you may get the reply to remove all the
information other than what is in the reply that you need.

Of course there are many other ways to achieve what you want, but they
require database programs on the server and a whole lot more cost and
setting up.

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[David Bartosik - MS MVP]

You failed to specify your version but I'm assuming 2002 in which case
mis-aligned form controls is a known issue and is covered at my site - refer
to http://www.davidbartosik.com/pub2002/pub2002_issues.htm
for the workaround.

However,
for what you are doing a form will not function. You cannot run a form in an
email newsletter. A form has to be located on a web server and be processed
by the server. All you can do in email is have an email address link, no
form processing.