Saving and opening templates in Outlook 2007

[Don Burgess]

Outlook 2007 Help says that to save a message as a template, the message must
be created in plain text. Is there a way to save an HTML message as a
template, so I can include embedded links in the message?

Also, once the template is saved, how do I retrieve it? In Outlook 2003, the
templates used to sit in the Outbox.

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You should be able to use the File | Save As command to save any item as an
..oft template file, regardless of the format.

Create a new item from the template by double-clicking the .oft file from
wherever you saved it or by using the Tools | Forms | Choose Form command and
browsing to User-defined templates in file system.

FWIW, no version of Outlook has ever stored templates in the Outbox.

 

[Don Burgess]

Thank you, Sue. Using Tools - Forms is a convenient way to get to the
template without having to open Windows Explorer.

The reason I mentioned the Outbox is that when I had saved a couple of
templates in Outlook 2003 (just before upgrading to 2007), I found them in
the Outbox too. The Outbox items showed their subject lines, not the
filenames under which I had saved them. None of the items had addresses in
the To or Bcc fields.

Don