Table in custom form

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harryguy082589

Hi,

Is there anyway to place a table in a form?

Thanks for the help in advance,

Dan

Note: i am not trying to cross post, someone in
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Is there anyway to place a table in a form?
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Well, yes there is. Build your custom form from a message form,
specify Word as your editor, then you can paste any table from any word
document into the message area. A common thing that I do is paste
microsoft's KB articles from their web site into Word documents, so
that I can save them locally as docs. The web based documents make
extensive use of tables. I can also paste them into message forms.

Now, if you are talking about data tables, then there is a dataset
control that you can use in the toolbox.
 
Office version? A table in the item body? A table-like structure on a custom form page?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Office xp and outlook xp.

I guess i should clarify what i'm trying to do; i'm trying to make an
inventory list, more like the excel tables than words, with columns
like NAME | PRICE | ID | PRICE.... and each time you fill out a row
another blank row shows up, and if possible you could add up all the
prices and that value can go back to another control.
 
What about the client and network environment? Does everyone have Excel installed? Is Exchange your mail server? Do you have permission to publish custom forms to the Organizational Forms library on the Exchange server?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers


Office xp and outlook xp.

I guess i should clarify what i'm trying to do; i'm trying to make an
inventory list, more like the excel tables than words, with columns
like NAME | PRICE | ID | PRICE.... and each time you fill out a row
another blank row shows up, and if possible you could add up all the
prices and that value can go back to another control.
Click to expand...
Office version? A table in the item body? A table-like structure on a custom form page?
 
This is a personal instlation of outlook with exchange or a server and
excel installed (2002\xp again). I am just doing this for my personal
use..
 
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This is a personal instlation of outlook with exchange or a server and
excel installed (2002\xp again). I am just doing this for my personal
use..
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I mistrust your typing. Did you really mean to say "without Exchange or
a server or excel installed" ? Do you have Word installed?

If you have set Word as your Email editor, you can do all those
functions with Word in your message, though new rows are added manually
using the menu. You can choose a style of table and can sum a column to
a total field in the table using a formula field set to =SUM(Above).
Then you just right-click the total field and choose update the field.

Beats trying to set this up from scratch.
 
You mistrust well, no i don't have excel or word installed. Is there a
way to do it without them?
 
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You mistrust well, no i don't have excel or word installed. Is there a
way to do it without them?
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That makes it a lot more difficult, to be sure. Certainly, using Word
as your editor is not possible. Unless it can be downloaded separately.
I will check in the back channels and report back.
 
Then what you want to do is pretty much impossible to do in an Outlook custom form, because dynamically adding additional fields requires a code solution, but once you add a field programmatically, then next time you open that item, it will no longer run any code.

Bottom line is that Outlook is not the right solution for what you want to do. Excel would be better.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers


You mistrust well, no i don't have excel or word installed. Is there a
way to do it without them?
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What about the client and network environment? Does everyone have Excel installed? Is Exchange your mail server? Do you have permission to publish custom forms to the Organizational Forms library on the Exchange server?

Office xp and outlook xp.

I guess i should clarify what i'm trying to do; i'm trying to make an
inventory list, more like the excel tables than words, with columns
like NAME | PRICE | ID | PRICE.... and each time you fill out a row
another blank row shows up, and if possible you could add up all the
prices and that value can go back to another control.
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Office version? A table in the item body? A table-like structure on a custom form page?
 
No, because WordMail handles the body of the message. No custom fields are involved at all.

I'd go for an Excel Office document form solution myself, but WordMail would come in a close second.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Sue Mosher said:
but once you add a field programmatically, then next time you open
that item, it will no longer run any code.
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Sue,

Do you think that would be true, also, with the WordMail solution? That
is, if he adds a row to his table using the Word Menu, then the whole
form one-offs?
 
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You mistrust well, no i don't have excel or word installed. Is there a
way to do it without them?
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The word from those who know is that, in OL2003 and all earlier
versions, you need the full Word application installed to be able to use
WordMail in Outlook.

I would guess that you are trying to do this little project on a
shoe-string budget. The budget you have provided seems to be a little
too short. You are going to have to invest in Word or Excel to get it
to happen.
 
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