Form control use on e-mail created using Publisher 2003

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Soorja - 22 Mar 2005 09:45 GMT

I have created an e-Newsletter using Publisher 2003 and send it to a group by
e-mail. I wanted to upgrade the newsletter by adding a text box and a submit
button by which the user can enter data and click submit. This will
automatically send the data in the textbox back to my e-mail address.
However, this is not working. The moment I send the e-Newsletter out as
e-mail, the form controls that I created change to graphics and cannot be
accessed. Is there any solution to this? If anyone has an answer to this,
please help me.

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David Bartosik [MSFT MVP] - 23 Mar 2005 06:04 GMT

Please note that since these are web page controls and html email, the
proper forum for this post would be our webdesign forum.

What you are trying to do doesn't work because there is nothing to process
the form and it's data. There is no invisible aether that does that, it
takes a program on a server to do it.

A form is served on a web page on a web server, the way a form works is that
when the client (the browser) does a Submit the form page sends the data in
the form controls in a postback to the server (web site). The server then
(using a program on the server) processes that data accordingly and sends a
confirmation page to the client.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
http://www.publishermvps.com
http://www.davidbartosik.com

>I have created an e-Newsletter using Publisher 2003 and send it to a group
>by
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> accessed. Is there any solution to this? If anyone has an answer to this,
> please help me.

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