can't create forms from office documents anymore

[Marty Peterson]

I see that Outlook 2002 and 2003 do not have the File | New | Office
Document functionality that was in the previous versions of Outlook. I
found this extremely useful for using Excel to create my form, then
publishing the form to the Org. forms library. This worked well so that
forms sent to Mac users or others not on Exchange showed up as
attachments...anyway...

Does anyone know how to do the same thing today with the newer versions of
Outlook or has this functionality move to somewhere else in the program? I
have a form in Excel that I want to publish as an Organizational Form. I
know I could load up Outlook 2000, but before doing that would like to find
a way to do this in Outlook 2002 or 2003

Is there a way to embed an Excel file within a Form??

thanks

Marty Peterson

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You can still use Office Document forms created in Outlook 2000 and modify them to create new OD forms. I've posted generic OD forms for this purpose at http://www.slipstick.com/files/odforms.zip.

FYI, I have heard one report of problems using OD forms in Outlook 2003, but don't know have enough details to know if it's an isolated issue or something that will actually make them difficult to use in that version.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers