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Ayth

Hello,

I have a situation where I need to do the following:

1. Create a template/form for a few users.
2. The bulk of the text will stay the same, however, certain fields do
need to be changed.
3. Upon the user opening this template/form their personal signature
needs to be inserted into the email.

Anyone have any ideas as to how to start it? I would prefer to have
the code in the actual template so that I do not have to deploy it to
each user. Thanks.

Cheers,

Darrin Henshaw
 
We need to know more in order to understand whether a "template" would be appropriate at all. Is this for internal use, i.e. for sending messages among people who work together? Do you use Exchange for your mail server? If so, can you publish a form to the Organizational Forms library?
 
We need to know more in order to understand whether a "template" would beappropriate at all. Is this for internal use, i.e. for sending messages among people who work together? Do you use Exchange for your mail server? If so, can you publish a form to the Organizational Forms library?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
   Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
     Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
   http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
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Thanks for replying Sue. What I meant by template was an actual OFT
file, saved somewhere. With word and excel files you can have code in
the document, however, I'm not sure if you can with Outlook. Yes
Exchange 2007 is the mail server, mainly Outlook 2007 for the clients.

I've done coding with Excel in the past, but that was over 6 years ago
with Excel 2000, so I'm quite rusty. Thanks.
 
Code does not run from .oft template files, only from published custom forms. If your Exchange 2007 server does not have a Public Folders hierarchy, you will not have a central Organizational Forms library for publishing forms for group use. Any form that needs to run code will have to be published to each user's Personal Forms library. See http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=61 for more on the implications of these limitations.

If you find that you don't need code, then an .oft file would work fine. You might want to see how far you can get with your scenario without code.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54



What I meant by template was an actual OFT
file, saved somewhere. With word and excel files you can have code in
the document, however, I'm not sure if you can with Outlook. Yes
Exchange 2007 is the mail server, mainly Outlook 2007 for the clients.

I've done coding with Excel in the past, but that was over 6 years ago
with Excel 2000, so I'm quite rusty. Thanks.
 
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