Need help with custom Outlook form

  • Thread starter Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.
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Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.

I'm new at customizing Outlook forms. I am creating a new Message form to
include a Label object that announces a company name change. The Compose
page works fine, but when I send a message to myself using the new form, the
Read page I get does not reflect any of the changes I made. On the Edit Read
Page in Design mode, I resized the Message body field and copied the Label to
the Read page and republished the form (several times) but neither of these
changes appear to me when I receive a test message. Can someone help me
figure this out? Thanks! (BTW, I don't know VBscript so I need to be able
to fix this without writing any code.)
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

Where did you publish the form? Are you working in an Exchange enviornment
or sending via the Internet?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



"Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp."
 
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Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp.

Ooops, sorry! My environment is: Exchange 2000 on Windows 2K server; my
workstation is WinXP SP2 with Office XP SP3. For testing, I published the
form to a public folder for IT staff. When I send a message with the form
from Outlook, I go to Tools, Forms, Choose form, and navigate to that public
folder to select the form.

Thanks for your assistance!
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

The problem is that you published to a public folder. For a message form to
be fully functional, it needs to be published to the Organizational Forms
library or to each user's Personal Forms library. (Think about it: How would
Outlook know to look in a particular public folder among possibly thousands
to find the published form definition?)

If you do not plan to include any code in your form, a solution is
available: On the (Properties) page of your form, check the "Send form
definition with item" box.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



"Karen G/Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp."
 
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