Need a checkbox in 2003 Outlook

[Simon]

Does anybody know if it's possible to include checkboxes that can be toggled
on and off in Outlook 2003 (in the body of a mail message?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Yes, you can use that for instance when designing a custom form.
But to what purpose? They are useless without any logic behind them.

 

[Simon]

It's for a template that had been originally designed in Word 2003. There
are multiple checkboxes that were on the original template but they won't
copy to the outlook message. And I couldn't find a way to make a checkbox in
the templates (except in the custom "task" but then I can't include the Word
doc).

Basically what I need is to have a Checkbox Forms Field (from Word) in the
body of an email, which is going to be used as a template..

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Is this related to the post of Annie1904 asked 18 minutes before your post?
It's the exact same thing. Checkboxes in a mail are worthless if you cannot
collect the answers provided to them. What are you trying to achieve with
this template? Is this for internal corporate use or external use (for
customers perhaps?). Why can't you provide the Word document via an email
attachment?

 

[Simon]

I thank you for your advice Roady. But the checkboxes are not worthless
because the forms will be re-sent by the recipient to another person. I
don't want to track what the responses are.

The problem is we can't just attach the Word document to the e-mail because
many documents are to be added by the recipient and then forwarded on to
another body. Since we are working on different corporate servers, the third
party couldn't open the attachments inserted by the second party in the
original Word document.

Unfortunately, due to Security reasons I can't attach a copy of the original
document as per policy.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The checkboxes are worthless as you cannot contain their values without
programming the logic behind those checkboxes. There is no other way to
contain that value. I'm assuming ultimately somebody, if not you, wants to
collect the answers given to the question in the form? You'd be working with
custom Outlook forms then (Tools-> Forms...) and require programming.

From the information provided, it doesn't sound to me that using emails is
the best way to achieve what you are doing. Wouldn't a web based solution be
better? How are the results from the emails to be processed for instance? If
you're collecting them via email, someone will eventually need to key them
into another system, right? What's the exact scenario you are trying to find
a solution for?