Infopath only works with Outlook2003 and not Outlook XP?

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Lenny Li

We opened a sample Issue Tracking form in Infopath. At the bottom,
there is a button labelled "Send as Email". When it's clicked, it says
"To use this feature, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 must be set as the
default e-mail program". :(

We have Outlook XP (2002) as the default, and originally thought we
can survive with just an additional copy of InfoPath on an existing
Office XP installation without having to buy the whole suite of Office
2003 Prof Enterprise Edition.

Could that response by the program be a bug, or is it a feature? I
can't see why sending a form in email requires a new version of email
program!
 
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Brian Teutsch [MSFT]

Sorry, but the error message was there for a reason. InfoPath 2003 does
require other Office 2003 applications to perform certain functions -
Outlook 2003 for Send as Mail and Excel 2003 for Export to Excel.

Thanks,
Brian
 
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Sofer Family

Having spent some time with this, I have found you need Outlook 2003 if you
want to the SEND AS EMAIL functionality to embed the form into the Outlook
message. What I actually did was create two buttons on the form. (1) send
the XLM file as an attachment to a user that has Infopath and (2) send as a
MHT file. Both are treated as attachments, rather than embedded objects with
Outlook XP, the current company standard.
As part of the process I force 2 saves one as MHT into one tablet-based
folder and another to another folder on the tablet. The respective button
picks up the saved form or MHT and attaches it as an attachment. The form
has an automated naming convention so the informed recipient can read what
the file is about by looking at the name

I hope this helps
R
 
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