Custom email field

[marcus.lee]

I'd like to add a custom email field to an contact form, so that
once a user has entered an email address they should be able to click
on it
to open a new mail message addressed to that email address. This field
would be separate from the 3 available in Outlook 2003.

Is there another "email" field type to do this? or am I going to have
to write
VBScript?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You'd need to write script.

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

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

 

[Hollis Paul [MVP - Outlook]]

Is there another "email" field type to do this? or am I going to have
to write
VBScript?

You are going to have to write VBScript. Worse, you will have to use a
back tab, as making any change on the General tab, which shows the
three main email fields, is likely to break the automatic formatting in
the phone fields, the email fields, and/or the web address fields.

Now, back on the back tab, you will want to have a text field, and a
command button. The text field to allow you to edit the email address,
and the command button to kick off the code that will create the new
message and address it, and whatever other changes you want to make to
it. And, finally, to send it.