Thanks @radzmar,they've helped clarify things, though I might need to ask further questions as I'm not sure if my second question is explained there.Boris
Windows 7 UltimateMS Outlook 2007LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2Reader XI'm very new to LiveCycle & have just created my first form with a "submit by email" button which sends the data from the form as an xml file.I can see how sending as xml would make sense if the idea was to use the form to collect dat...