Outlook 2000 form import to Outlook2003

[Tim Luken ~ Granby Theater]

I modified the existing appointment form for a night club where I work. I
added a few pages for the specific group functions and then pages for each
manager to complete for staffing and notes. It worked fine on my Outlook
2000 and I could email it to other 2000 users. But I can not get it to work
in Outlook 2003.

I saved the file on a flash drive. I would open the file from the flash
drive and then publish it to the personal files on the individuals computer I
was using. This seemed to work for the Outlook 2000 users. But when I try
to open it up on 2003 it looks like the regular appointment with the
additional pages missing.

Can you help me out with this form?

Thank you so much.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Beginning with Outlook 2003 SP2, users can work with most .oft form templates files only by opening the template from the Tools | Forms | Choose Form dialog, browsing for User Templates in File System. This means that if the .oft file is sent as a message attachment, the user must save it to the local hard drive first.

The article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907985 explains this change in more detail, suggests best practices, and provides registry keys that can return Outlook 2003 to the older, less secure behavior.

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

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