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10 easy steps to customizing an Outlook 2010 form

Nice one.

Great article! Before I dive in and start tinkering, would a similar process work if I'm using Outlook 2007?

The print function under the more+ link causes IE 8 to close and reopen the page. It happens on two different web pages on this site. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong or there is indeed a problem with the coding of these pages. I would like to print this page. Thank you.

Pradip

Hi, nice article, very helpful. One problem though which I hope someone can help with. Its driving me nuts, and it seems nobody on the planet can solve it.
I'm using Outlook 2007, synced with Hotmail via Connector.
I have created a lovely user defined appointment form, and set it as default as you described, It works beatifully except that after I do a Send/Receive it reverts to the default IPM.appointment, and in so doing any appointments already created with the new form revert back.
I can see any data in my user defined fields by using the "all appointments" view, but this is a pain. Any ideas - really would appreciate it. T49.

This is without a doubt the clearest and most concise article I've found on the subject. Your teaching style is exceptional in this post.

Great job! When I try to create a from based on the outlook "message" form, after I publish it to my personal forms library and send the completed form to myself, all I recieve is a blank email. any ideas?

I have the same issue...Please let me know if you have gotten an answer and what the answer is...

I tried this and found that when you design the form in design you have to design both the read and compose pages, they must look exactly alike, it worked after I did that.

Hi Susan, Thanks for your post!

I've been searching for a way to accomplish simple project management in Outlook. I think that the main features that I'm looking for are:
1) ability to group tasks by project
2) task sequencing (which I think Outlook does but haven't tested thoroughly yet)
3) task heirarchies

Surprisingly, at least features #1 and #2 don't seem to be available in Outlook. I believe that this must be a deliberate strategy on the part of MicroSoft for fear of cannibalizing MS Project sales. To me, however, the weight of the uses is not comparable.

Your post makes me think custom fields might be a way to go to develop these myself. I wonder if you could comment on this? I know alot of Outlook users are looking for the same thing.

With regards to your post, I'm not very techy but learned alot. You lost me in step 8 on VBscript, though, which seemed both more techy and less carefully detailed than the other steps.

I will try to implement my idea and see how it goes and would be interested in any further conceptual contributions that you might care to share.

I have design a message form to my liking and it works. Is it possible to add autotext to the message box inside that form and how can I do that?
I did find out how to do it so no need for a reply.

I'm trying to create a purchase requisition form and am not getting anywhere. From what I can tell it would appear that I have to create a brand new form. If yes, where do I start?

Hi,
Thanks for the tip. I created a "message: form and can pull it up, however after filling it out and mailing it the user doesn't receive the form. They receive just the standard email form. What am I missing ?

Thanks
Bruce

Hi
I want to see the BCC contacts also on my printout. So I designed a form in the Sent Mail group.
By changing the properties of the added object (BCC) I expected it to work.
When I try to set it as a default for my "sent items" folder error displays: "You cannot create an item of this type in this folder"

I have now adapted the standard input form as suggested and this presents itself when making a new entry into the Contacts folder.
The question is how to make sure old/existing entries which are pulled up for editing now show up based upon the new 'Contact Form1'.

Step 3 - Open a form in Design View. When I try this, the Original form is not in design view, only page 2, 3, etc. I can add controls to page 2 but not edit the original form. How can I do this? I don't want a form with 2 pages.