My solution
I knew that VB has been able to utilize a mail object pre .Net days, so I dug into the poorly designed online help and spent hours searching to find the answer. By importing the System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail namespace, I was able to write a procedure to build the form as text and email it to myself.
Now that I proved it would work, I fired up Frontpage, designed the form, then copied the HTML code and inserted it into my program's code. By emailing myself the form as an HTML-based message, it displays beautifully in Outlook. (Okay, it just doesn't print so beautifully...!) But it came out looking good enough to make the VP happy, and that's what counts.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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