Controls in and Printing of forms

[Snake_Plisken]

I have created a custom form in Outlook for staff to complete and send to the
IT dept. when they have computer and/or phone issues. The form works well
except for a couple of problems. First, I have inserted check boxes for staff
to indicate their location, etc. You can use the check boxes with no problem,
but when the IT dept. recieves the e-mail, the check boxes are empty. Second,
I had deleted one of the check boxes during the design and re-inserted it.
However, this check box(checkbox2) is not included in the TAB Order list
anymore. All the others are. And last, when trying to print the e-mail it
does not print as the form is designed nor does it print the fields in the
same order as on the form (ex., instead of getting "User", "date",
"supervisor" fields printed in that order it will print as "date", "problem
description", "user", "time"). Does anyone know how I can solve these issues.
I have researched the problem until I'm blind. Please any and all
suggetstions appreciated.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

1) Did you bind each check box to a separate Yes/No custom field to store the data? And bind the controls on the Read page to the same fields?

2) See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/customprint.htm for various solutions to the limitation that Outlook forms don't support WYSIWYG printing. The Word template technique is the most flexible and highly recommended.

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for Outlook forms issues "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms or, via web interface, at http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...spx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers