Drafts as "templates"

[mdavison]

We are Novell (almost off)/Windows XP (SP1)/Exchange 2003/Office 2003 (SP1)

I feel silly after all these years but....what is the correct way to use the
Drafts folder of outlook for email "templates" is that even a correct
application of the folder? I have a department that wants to save drafts of
emails in "Drafts" and reuse them. But when you send a message from Drafts -
it is no longer inthe foler.

I've tried to talk them into just using various Signatures, but they say
they do that now, but with a shared mailbox - signatures are not
cross-shared and maintaining consistency becomes difficult.

Ideas?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

A couple of ideas:

Make a copy of the item by Ctrl+dragging it to the Outbox, and open the copy to modify and send.

Or, turn off Word as the editor, and save the item as an .oft file to a shared location. You can then turn WordMail back on.

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

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

 

[mdavison]

OK. Would the second option (.oft) work without using Word as the email
editor? We turn that off in our image.
Thx.


A couple of ideas:

Make a copy of the item by Ctrl+dragging it to the Outbox, and open the copy
to modify and send.

Or, turn off Word as the editor, and save the item as an .oft file to a
shared location. You can then turn WordMail back on.

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

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes.

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

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