MS Word - Putting in a button...

fusionlad · Sun 10 Oct, 2010 20.50

Hi all,

I wanted to know how to do something, so I thought of you lot straight away. Then tried Google. But I can't be bothered to sift through all that rubbish.

Anyway, is there an easy way to insert some kind of button which when you click on it, will send the document off as an attachment in an e-mail?

I'm just trying to do a customer satisfaction survey thing by e-mail at work, and I'd like them to be able to click a button on the bottom of the page to e-mail it to our customer service address.

Cheers all.

WillPS · Mon 11 Oct, 2010 15.58

Not sure in Word, but if I was you I'd do it in Acrobat which can create a PDF with that functionality

Beep · Mon 11 Oct, 2010 16.43

http://nature.berkeley.edu/~alyons/macros.html#survey

Is that the sort of thing you were thinking of?
I did see an online tutorial type thing about it not so long ago.

Chie · Mon 11 Oct, 2010 16.58

Beep wrote:http://nature.berkeley.edu/~alyons/macros.html#survey

Is that the sort of thing you were thinking of?
I did see an online tutorial type thing about it not so long ago.

That will add a button to the toolbar and not the page itself.

I spent some time searching for a solution last night but was unable to find one.

DVB Cornwall · Mon 11 Oct, 2010 17.16

Seems you are wanting some sort of macro,

Doing the following.
1 Save the document
2 Open E Mail system (if not already open)
3 Open new mail message
4 Attach saved document
5 Insert an addressee
6 Send Mail
7 Delete Saved copy of document.

Would seem to me to be too complex to incorporate in a single hyperlink, that you're envisaging.

Gavin Scott · Mon 11 Oct, 2010 17.54

Doesn't a mailto:[email protected] hyperlink do the job?

DVB Cornwall · Mon 11 Oct, 2010 18.16

That'll open the PC's mail application, open a new mail with the addressee in it, that's it.

fusionlad · Mon 11 Oct, 2010 23.09

That is pretty much it Mr Cornwall.

Thanks for the taking the time to investigate everyone. Would I be right in thinking this might be easier in Excel? I'm sure I've seen similar Macro operations in my previous jobs.

At least I wasn't missing something simple. I was thinking along your lines originally Gavin.

Gavin Scott · Tue 12 Oct, 2010 09.30

fusionlad wrote:I was thinking along your lines originally Gavin.

You can add a subject line and even some body text using the mailto - that's about as far as I can get with this. I suppose they only need then attach the saved document - so you've done most of the work for them.

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/can_i_have ... _body.html

fusionlad · Tue 12 Oct, 2010 19.23

Yea cheers for that.

Probably not worth agonising over doing it a clever way when if they have any sense, they'd just send it back

.

Steve in Pudsey · Tue 12 Oct, 2010 20.11

I would caution against anything involving mailto: links or requiring users to have a functioning email client on their machine. In these enlightened days of cloud based email services like hotmail and Gmail (and the corporate versions thereof) the odds of a mailto: link working are considerably less of a certainty than they once were.

To me the solution for the questionnaire is a web form. http://www.surveymonkey.com is your friend if setting up something more bespoke isn't viable.