As companies and people start incorporating the Internet to their work routine, using its resources to perform daily activities, it becomes easier to use the possibilities offered by the Web to collect data by means of questionnaires. The paper reports the autors' experience using an MS Word form to convey a questionnaire for a quantitative research project. The form was sent via e-mail to manufacturing companies in Brazil,  with the intent to find out the perceived Internet's impact on the industrial sector. Response was significantly faster than it would be achieved with a conventional procedure, return rate was satisfactory and the cost was much lower, due to the virtualization of the contact with the participants.