Using e-mail, I am sending out a "protected" MS (Word 2000) form to
clients that I created. They are asked to save it to their hard drive, open
it, complete the form, save it, then attach it to an e-mail back to me.
The returned form is showing completed on the e-mail preview screen but
when I save and then open the file, the form apparently resets, and the data
is erased.
Thanks in advance for your any advise!

Any chance you sent out a template (.dot) file and are creating a new
document from it when it is returned? What is the name of the document shown
in the title bar?
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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Using e-mail, I am sending out a "protected" MS (Word 2000) form to
clients that I created. They are asked to save it to their hard drive,
open
it, complete the form, save it, then attach it to an e-mail back to me.
The returned form is showing completed on the e-mail preview screen but
when I save and then open the file, the form apparently resets, and the
data
is erased.
Thanks in advance for your any advise!

Charles:
I rechecked and both outgoing and incoming files were .doc types.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Any chance you sent out a template (.dot) file and are creating a new
document from it when it is returned? What is the name of the document shown
in the title bar?
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
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"Phil B." wrote in message
news
Using e-mail, I am sending out a "protected" MS (Word 2000) form to
clients that I created. They are asked to save it to their hard drive,
open
it, complete the form, save it, then attach it to an e-mail back to me.
The returned form is showing completed on the e-mail preview screen but
when I save and then open the file, the form apparently resets, and the
data
is erased.
Thanks in advance for your any advise!