Attachments and Forms

[lemony]

Hi;

I am trying to get multiple attachments to work with custom forms. The
main issue that I have is that on read outlook seems to determine the size of
the attachment window as a part of the size of the message window. It ends
up with a very small attachment window no matter how many attachments are
attached making it very hard for the recipient to see the attachments. Is
there a way to resize this?

I think i have gotten close by using RTF format for the email, however I
cant work out how to make the form always use RTF if this is indeed the
workaround.

thanks for any help

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, the attachments control is not directly accessible. Therefore, it is not programmable.

You can force Outlook to always use RTF for a particular form by (a) making RTF your default format long enough to (b) on the (Properties) page of the form, set it to use a particular Word template. Note that this will ensure that no non-Outlook recipient can read any of the attachments.

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

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

 

[lemony]

Sue
Thanks very much for the help, unfortunately my "Always use Microsoft word
as the email editor" option is disabled when designing the form. Not sure
why this is as I have all of Office installed.

It is possible for me to get the form into RTF by selecting Plain Text
(which makes the RTF option available) then selecting RTF, although this
doesent seem to work once the form is in the organisational forms library.

Do you know of any other way to make it use RTF ?

thanks v much for your help so far

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you follow my instructions and set your default message format to RTF before doing anything else?

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

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

 

[lemony]

Sue

Yes, I went to Tools / Options / Mail Format and changed "Compose in this
message format" To Rich Text in the dropdown, then restarted outlook and
tried it.

I have also tried ticking the two tickboxes about composing and reading in
word and separately tried to change the internet format to use outlook RTF
format incase for some reason the send was done using internet style.

I had found some articles saying you could do this per address but the
options dont appear for me, I'm guessing because were on an exchange server
and all of our contacts etc come from the internal address book.

I've raised a prem support incident now - but one thing I dont understand
(aside from the fact the option is disabled) is if I specify a template how
do all of the users of the form get the right template?

thanks for all of your help / suggestions

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

were on an exchange server

and all of our contacts etc come from the internal address book.Yes

Yes, in that scenario, you will not be able to specify RTF for the recipient, but the adminsitrator could do it.

if I specify a template how
do all of the users of the form get the right template?

You'd need to place the Word .dot template on a network drive that everyone can access.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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

 

[lemony]

Thanks very much for that sue - my administrator had denied all knowledge of
being able to do it therefore armed with this I can recheck

The network drive is a no go for me I'm afrad, different desktops and
domains and such spread all over the orgaisation, about the only thing they
have in common is office.

thansk for your help - youve been way more use than the prem support
incident i still have running!