Solution design: Appropriate use for One-Off form?

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Bob Austin

To read the MSKB and slipstick.com articles, as well as postings here,
one-off forms sound like an evil to be avoided. For my solution, they seem
to make sense. I'd like feedback.

I'm dealing with a ~20 volunteers of a non-profit collecting data for 1000+
items over a few month period. Everyone has Outlook (used on home
machines), but not every is literate beyond the basics. Ideally, I'd send
them an email with a form that they could fill-in and reply to. I'd then
have the data to parse into Access.

In digging in here, it looks like a one-off form that gets sent with the
data is the way to go. I don't care about data size or long-term maintenance
of the form.

Am I on the right track here?

Re the RTF stipulation, will HTML work as well (or better)?

Bob
 

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