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Anthony Gregg - 21 Nov 2003 19:37 GMT

I am trying to take a Word 2003 form and make an Outlook
oft template out of it. Does anyone out there know how to
do this?

The problem is that you have to turn off Word as your
EMail editor to do this and this in turn removes the
features of your Word Form and hence when you turn it back
on once the template is created, the entry fields are
eliminated from the Outlook Template.

Thanks

Anthony

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 21 Nov 2003 20:05 GMT

Can you say more about what you're trying to do? It's possible to make an Outlook form use a Word .dot template file for its message body layout. But if you have an actual Word document with form fields and you want Outlook to store data from those fields in its properties, then you might as well throw the Word document away and start fresh with your Outlook form, because there's no conversion between the two.

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Anthony Gregg - 21 Nov 2003 21:44 GMT

Thanks Sue for responding to my post.

I have a Word form with fields and some checkbox's and I
wanted to save it as a oft file so that when I select a
User form in Outlook I can send it to a user and they can
then fill it out and return it.

Does that make sense?

Thanks

Anthony

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>Can you say more about what you're trying to do? It's possible to make an Outlook form use a Word .dot template

file for its message body layout. But if you have an
actual Word document with form fields and you want Outlook
to store data from those fields in its properties, then
you might as well throw the Word document away and start
fresh with your Outlook form, because there's no
conversion between the two.

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>> oft template out of it. Does anyone out there know how to
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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 21 Nov 2003 23:28 GMT

Sure it makes sense, but you'll have to do as I suggested -- start from scratch on building an Outlook form that looks the same as your Word form.

Either that, or send it to the other user as a Word attachment. In the long run, that might be the easiest solution.

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Anthony Gregg - 24 Nov 2003 22:05 GMT

THanks Sue. I will try and make an Outlook form out of it.

>-----Original Message-----
>Sure it makes sense, but you'll have to do as I suggested -- start from scratch on building an Outlook

form that looks the same as your Word form.

>Either that, or send it to the other user as a Word attachment. In the long run, that might be the easiest

solution.
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