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bondg - 20 Jan 2005 13:48 GMT

User drags and drops messages to her calendar to create appts. However,
unless the message is RichText, only the header fields show up in the notes
section of the appt form. She, of course, wants the entire message to
appear.

How to make the entire message show up in the appt form?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 21 Jan 2005 21:37 GMT

Use the right click to drag and drop the items onto the calendar.

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Ian - 24 Jan 2005 03:15 GMT

I have same problem in Outlook 2002. There was an earlier reply from
MVP-Outlook saying that upgrading to SP1 would fix the problem. It did not
work. Neither "left click drag&drop" nor "right click drag&drop" works.
Interstingly, if I drag email from IMAP Calendar, the email texts are copied
over to the calendar.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 24 Jan 2005 08:01 GMT

And, of course, you never mentioned that this was an IMAP account. Jeesh.

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bondg - 24 Jan 2005 20:46 GMT

Hey, don't "Jeesh" me! You never asked if it was an IMAP account. Anyway,
that was Ian, not me. :-D

Right drag and drop works just fine for me. Though it's an extra step that
is only sometimes necessary. Oh well....I suppose chasing down why this
behaves oddly would be more trouble than just accepting the wrongness of it
all.

Don't get me wrong, Milly. I really do appreciate your help. I will pass
this along to my user. But when it's all said and done, I HATE settling for
a work-around when a fix is what's needed.

Thanks again.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 25 Jan 2005 07:12 GMT

Guys - you need to recognize that IMAP accounts behave differently from POP3
accounts. This is why it was important to mention that the account was IMAP
based, not POP3 like the vast majority of the rest of the world.

If you leave out information, expect incorrect or incomplete responses. Not
my fault - just remember this the next time you post a question. Account
type is essential. I would not expect a pure POP3 account to have the Out
of Office assistant available so posting that you are using Exchange helps
tremendously in troubleshooting if the option does not appear, for example.

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Ian - 24 Jan 2005 21:15 GMT

Milly--You missed the point. Drag&drop from my Outlook email account to
Outlook calendar does NOT work (i.e, only header is copied over and email
text is not), but Drag&drop from my IMAP account to Outlook calendar works
fine.

I agree with bondg that it's better to fix the problem instead of working
around it.

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