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[Mike]

I have designed (in Word) an Evaluation form. I run an In-
Plant Print Shop. I would like to send the form via email
as an attachment to my customers (ie. other departments)
and ask them to evaluate the Print Shop by answering
various questions. Once complete it was my hope that they
could hit the submit button and have the completed form
emailed back to me. That way I could print the forms and
keep them on file.

The form itself starts out by asking the user to rate 4
aspects of our operation. The user rates each of these 4
areas by clicking on an option button. Each question has
4 option buttons, one for Excellent, 1 for Good, 1 for
Fair and 1 for Poor.

Then there are 2 questions accompanied by Text areas so
that there is plenty of room to write comments. The last
question is accompanied by a text box asking the user for
the name of the department in which they work.

At the bottom I placed a "submit" button in hopes that the
user could click here to send the completed Evaluation on
its merry way back to me via email.

All of these tools (option button, Text area, Text box and
Submit button) are all from the "Web Tools" toolbox.

I think that is all the information I have and a complete
picture of what I would like to do.

Mike C.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Mike > écrivait :
In this message, < Mike > wrote:

| I have designed (in Word) an Evaluation form. I run an In-
| Plant Print Shop. I would like to send the form via email
| as an attachment to my customers (ie. other departments)
| and ask them to evaluate the Print Shop by answering
| various questions. Once complete it was my hope that they
| could hit the submit button and have the completed form
| emailed back to me. That way I could print the forms and
| keep them on file.
|
| The form itself starts out by asking the user to rate 4
| aspects of our operation. The user rates each of these 4
| areas by clicking on an option button. Each question has
| 4 option buttons, one for Excellent, 1 for Good, 1 for
| Fair and 1 for Poor.
|
| Then there are 2 questions accompanied by Text areas so
| that there is plenty of room to write comments. The last
| question is accompanied by a text box asking the user for
| the name of the department in which they work.
|
| At the bottom I placed a "submit" button in hopes that the
| user could click here to send the completed Evaluation on
| its merry way back to me via email.
|
| All of these tools (option button, Text area, Text box and
| Submit button) are all from the "Web Tools" toolbox.
|
| I think that is all the information I have and a complete
| picture of what I would like to do.
|
|Instead of using the Web Tool box, use the Forms toolbar.

Use Text fields and the Dropdown fields (instead of option buttons, with a
dropdown you force the user to choose only one possible answer, as in "Yes,
No, Maybe" etc.).
See the links I posted earlier to building in-line forms.

When you are done, near the end, insert a macro button field:

{MACROBUTTON Test Double-click here to submit the form}

Where the {} Are inserted by doing CTRL-F9 and where the word "Test" refers
to a macro called Test that would contain the code to submit the form, i.e,
the code from the page I posted at the beginning of the thread. If you are
in a control environment and are guaranteed that everyone has Outlook, you
can go for the second option, otherwise, use the first one (Routing).

This should be fairly easy to build. No messing about with Web tools and
script.
If you try, post back with specific question (Start a new thread).

--
Salut!
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Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org