Computer help forum: Microsoft Outlook-How do you have emails....................

...then such a task is not that difficult using a Microsoft Word document.. It's called "Routing" and can be done by creating a routing slip from within a Word document.. See the link below:

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=549&tag=nl.e056

The Word document is sent as an attachment and after being approved, it will then be routed on to the next person in the list.. A little training of the receivers of the document may be required as it takes a knack to make it work correctly..(Save the attachment to your desktop, open it, sign the document, then save and close.. Open the document and close it again and it will ask the user if they want to route it to the next person in the list.)

Hope this helps.

Grif

We use it for routing Work Performance Evaluations of our employees. We have a number of employees that work in a variety of work areas and as such, various supervisors have input into the WPE. We've created special/editable but "Protected" forms using Microsoft Word.. Each supervisory user has his own CHECK mark box next to his/her name which can be CHECKED when the user is finished editing the WPE sections. (I'm guessing the same could be done using a tablet PC with a handwriting program and touchscreen for use with an actual signature, but it's not necessary for our situation.) When finished, the document is then routed to the next person in the list AND a copy is sent to the secretary in charge who monitors each of the routing locations which relays from where the document was routed.

Hope this helps.

Grif

Did you check? Follow the same steps as was provided in the link from my other post. On this machine with Office 2002, I create a routing slip in Excel by clicking on "File-Send To-Routing Recipient", then setup the routing recipients you want to receive the documents. I believe Office 2003 is the same.

The procedures can be found by Googling the topic.

Hope this helps.

Grif

If you look in MS Office 2007 (or any other version) help file for routing you will find the exact steps. All recipients on your routing list must be in your contacts address book.

The help file information will read something like the following although the exact proceedure (this is for an excel workbook) will differ based on Office version --

Create a routing slip

1. Open the workbook you want to route.
2. On the File menu, point to Send To, and then click Routing Recipient.
3. To select recipients to route the workbook to, click Address.
4. In the Type name or select from list box, type a recipient's name, and then click To. Once you've entered the last recipient name in the To box, click OK.

You can select a group alias as the recipient. However, all members of the group alias are considered one recipient. To route the workbook to members of a group alias one after another, route it to the individual members, not to the entire alias.

You can change the order in which recipients will receive the routed workbook by changing the order of recipient names in the list. Select the name of the recipient you want to move up or down in the list, and then click the appropriate arrow.

5. Select other routing options you want.

For Help on an option, click the question mark and then click the option.

6. To route the workbook, click Route.

To close the dialog box without routing the workbook, click Add Slip. To route the workbook at a later time, open the workbook, click Send To on the File menu, and then click Next Routing Recipient.

Note When you route a workbook, the workbook is sent as an attachment in an e-mail message.

Thanks so much Grif!!!! You've been so nice to take the time for me. You've been very patient.....