my form will not return information to me

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alexanderd

i have just started to try to design an outlook form, looks easy
infact i was supprised when my form worked, well upto the point where
it was to be returned to me.

great the form came back but not the information placed in the form.

where have i gone wrong, what should i do to resove the situation.

i used tool>forms>design a form
changed (P.2) to become the form (available to all who wish to reciev
it )
 
It sounds to me like you may not have bound the fields that you created
to the form. To do this you need to add a control to the form and then
right click on it,select Properties and go to the Value tab. On this
tab,ensure that there is data in the fields that appear i.e.
name,type,property to use. If there is nothing, select the new button
and add this info.Once all the fields have this, republish the form and
see if the data is saved against the fields. This should be the case.
 
great the form came back but not the information placed in the form.

where have i gone wrong, what should i do to resove the situation.
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Also, make sure that you have not put your "form" elements on the
Compose "form", and not the read "form". For some reason known only to
the Outlook application designers, a form opens in design mode in a
split form mode, where the compose form is separate from the read form.
Using the forms menu, uncheck the Split form Layout option. Then your
controls will be visible on both the compose and read forms.

Finally, if you anticipate sending your items over the internet, you
want to make sure it is sent using the TNEF wrapper. Go to
www.slipstick.com, do a search using TNEF as the search term, The
first Item, entitled something like How to send forms across the
Internet, should explain it very well.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
(e-mail address removed)
Using Virtual Access 4.52 build 277 (32-bit), Windows 2000 build 2195
http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?FR=0&SD=TECH&LN=EN-US

Mukilteo, WA USA
 
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