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Good luck with that, sounds to me like they are being extremely over picky about what they want lol. I think that's the first time I've every heard of someone "wanting" all the fields even if they weren't filled out, but I suppose that's because they want to put the application into the applicant/interviewee/employee file as a completed application. That's truly the only reason I could see them wanting to do that.

You can edit the HTML of the form results though right within the program to do whatever you want it to do. Just keep in mind that email styling is very different from website styling as it still uses the very old inline CSS setups yet. To keep it really easy though you can do the following:
1. Go into the form's settings and into the email results as if you were going to edit the HTML of it.
2. Make sure all fields are entered in and you've removed the default results code from the HTML of the form results.
a. You can do this very easily by using the drop down menu under the email code area that has a list of every single field that can be used in the form in it. Just input them in on separate lines to start with just so they are all there.
NOW....
3. Copy the entire code from the results HTML settings and paste it into your favorite HTML Editor of choice.
4. Edit it how you like it where you can view it with Preview windows like the HTML Editor has so you can see it as you update it.
5. Once you get the results setup how you like then copy that code back into the settings of that email and you're done.

That might save you at least some time trying to get it setup for them. Good luck with it, sure is a lot of hassle if you ask me lol. You would think they would just use one of the hundreds of job sites out there with Application setups already built in rather than doing it themselves :P
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Hi Jo Ann, Thank you for responding and for your suggestions!
I agree with the being over-picky but to a point. And yes, it is so they can file it as the application form. Also, as for your suggestion, that's what I had started to do, thanks.
I think that's the first time I've every heard of someone "wanting" all the fields even if they weren't filled out,

Well no, after searching through the forums, I have seen quite a few people asking about the wanting all the fields, and the answer is to individually add the fields instead of the [_form_results_], which is fine for a simple form, but 186 fields is not a simple form.

Then they ask me "why we bought a web form creation software if it can't simply send back or email the form"....... well I WISH I had a good answer for that, but I obviously don't!

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