Outlook 2007

[626F62]

A friend of mine is trying to write an 'interactive' email. were he sends out, for example, a questionaire with buttons for yes and no and a responce is given back to him...

this was possible in 2003 as outlook used HTML to open the HTML emails... (i believe)

2007 it shows up as nasty looking code as Outlook now opens the email in Word... this works for some HTML code like pictures but not the interactive stuff...

can he make it work, or if not how will he be able to do this??

all info would be appriciated

thanks

Bob

 

[strongm]

In Outlook 2003, IE was leveraged to render HTML mails (and Word was used to edit them)

The Outlook team decided that there were inconsistencies between the two and to eliminate them decided to use a single engine to read and write the HTML. They chose Word's HTML-rendering engine, which means that there is indeed stuff you used to be able to do in Outlook using HTML that you can no longer do. There was (and is) a lot of discontent about this, as it was a backward step

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx

 

[BlueHorizon]

Hi,
You can create an electronic form in Word and use Mail Merge to send out as an email.


Best,
Blue Horizon

 

[Lilliabeth]

I don't understand... is there some problem with using Voting Buttons in Word 2007? It seems to be working for us so far.

--Lilliabeth

 

[626F62]

will have a look at the voting buttons in word now...
and maybe do it with mail merge

thanks people for the help :-D