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Emailing a Protected Form
I created a form that has the following characteristics:
1. Multiple tables on one page. 2. AutoShapes in front of the tables (with no fill - to create borders that line up nicely). 3. Password protection. Some of my users want to be able to send the document to people via email (we use Outlook) by using the FileSend ToMail Recipient functionality (they do not want to send it as an attachment). When they do this, the page looks fine before they send it, but when it gets to the recipient the tables and AutoShapes shift and the whole page is jumbled. Everything is also jumbled when the sender looks at the message in her sent items. We have tried this on 3 different computers and always get the same results. Is there a setting in Word or Outlook that I can change to fix this? |
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Emailing a Protected Form
The short answer is that Word is a terrible choice for this. Microsoft's own
solution is InfoPath; and there are any number of other apps out there (like Acrobat) that can do emailable forms. If you insist on doing it with Word, don't try to be clever with the formatting. Forget your AutoShapes. "BCBC" wrote in message ... I created a form that has the following characteristics: 1. Multiple tables on one page. 2. AutoShapes in front of the tables (with no fill - to create borders that line up nicely). 3. Password protection. Some of my users want to be able to send the document to people via email (we use Outlook) by using the FileSend ToMail Recipient functionality (they do not want to send it as an attachment). When they do this, the page looks fine before they send it, but when it gets to the recipient the tables and AutoShapes shift and the whole page is jumbled. Everything is also jumbled when the sender looks at the message in her sent items. We have tried this on 3 different computers and always get the same results. Is there a setting in Word or Outlook that I can change to fix this? |
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Hi BCBC
BCBC wrote: 1. Multiple tables on one page. 2. AutoShapes in front of the tables (with no fill - to create borders that line up nicely). 3. Password protection. Usually, you're better off by creating a fixed table setup, so that all content is packed into table cells, and where you need borders, they are cell borders. Some of my users want to be able to send the document to people via email (we use Outlook) by using the FileSend ToMail Recipient functionality (they do not want to send it as an attachment). [..] Before getting any further he "send the document to people" -- does that mean internally within your organization, or outside? Because, if it's outside, that means you have no control of the settings of your recipients' email tool (you have no idea what kind of application they are using in the first place). They might read their emails in text-only mode, FWIW. IOW, you will have a lot more problems to solve first ... 0.2¢ Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Thanks to both of you for the replies.
"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote: Hi BCBC BCBC wrote: 1. Multiple tables on one page. 2. AutoShapes in front of the tables (with no fill - to create borders that line up nicely). 3. Password protection. Usually, you're better off by creating a fixed table setup, so that all content is packed into table cells, and where you need borders, they are cell borders. Some of my users want to be able to send the document to people via email (we use Outlook) by using the FileSend ToMail Recipient functionality (they do not want to send it as an attachment). [..] Before getting any further he "send the document to people" -- does that mean internally within your organization, or outside? Because, if it's outside, that means you have no control of the settings of your recipients' email tool (you have no idea what kind of application they are using in the first place). They might read their emails in text-only mode, FWIW. IOW, you will have a lot more problems to solve first ... 0.2¢ Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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