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[\Allen Iverson\]

Hi,

How can I put a word doc on the webserver so that I can use IE
to click and fill up the information and then click a button to send an
email to a default sender? Please advise me the methodology. Thanks.

 

[Rob Schneider]

What you want to do isn't necessarily the best thing to do, but you can
do it.

Normally people will write a small web application to collect data in a
HTML form, and then use the web app to email the info from the server.
These things are normally written in languages like PHP, VB, Perl, C#,
Java, etc.

However, if you simply put the DOC file on the web server, then open it
in IE .. as long as user has Word ... and they must in order open the
file, then IE will launch Word inside itself and display the file. Then
user issues File/Send to command to send the mail onward via email.
For this it is required for user to have an email client connected to
Word and an email account. With this approach, it all works great as
long as the user has Word, email client, and email account.

With the more standard approach (mentioned at top) all they need is IE
as everything else handled with the server.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms