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Tony - 19 May 2004 22:19 GMT

Hi All,

I've got a custom Contact form that, when a button is clicked, populates a
Word document, opens an e-mail message, and attaches the Word doc to the
e-mail. No problem there.

What I've been requested to do is augment the Contact form such that the
user has a control into which to insert screen shots. Here come the
questions:

1) Is there a built-in field that I can use to do this, other than the Notes
field?
2) I've tried the Notes field but somewhere on the form (I can't determine
where), I apparently have a Notes or Message field and I am told there will
be a conflict when I attempt to insert the Notes field. Any way to find
where the original is?
3) How do I refer to the built in field? I'm currently using this syntax to
refer to the custom fields I've added to the form:

strMyField = thisItem.Find("Call Priority")
oDoc.FormFields("Call_Priority").Result = strMyField

I'm using Outlook 2000, SP-3. If additional information is needed, please
let me know.

As always, Thanks & Ciao,

Tony

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 19 May 2004 23:27 GMT

1) No.

2) The default first page of every form has a message/notes field. It's the
big fat one at the bottom of the form.

3) The plain text version of the message/notes field is the Body property.
Outlook actually stores rich-text information in it, but it's not easy to
get to that. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/formatmsg.htm and also the
documentation on new features for the latest version of Redemption
(http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/)

In short, what you've been tasked to do will be quite difficult. You might
get something out of the information at
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/formpicture.htm.

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> Hi All,
>
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> 1) Is there a built-in field that I can use to do this, other than the Notes
> field?

No.

> 2) I've tried the Notes field but somewhere on the form (I can't determine
> where), I apparently have a Notes or Message field and I am told there will
> be a conflict when I attempt to insert the Notes field. Any way to find
> where the original is?

> 3) How do I refer to the built in field? I'm currently using this syntax to
> refer to the custom fields I've added to the form:
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>
> Tony

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Tony - 20 May 2004 14:46 GMT

Hi Sue,

Thanks for the response. I'll check out the included links, and I think I
may have to recreate the form. I originally had no use for the Notes field,
and (I thought) removed it. It must be lingering in the background
somewhere... Now that I need it, it probably makes sense to start over.

As always, your suggestions are much appreciated.

Ciao,

Tony

> 1) No.
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> > Tony

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