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Creating Custom Forms

Although the standard Outlook forms are often good enough, there are times when you'll

wish the form had different fields. You might want to remove some of the default fields,

add some of your own, or just rearrange what's there.

You might want to create a boilerplate message to use in response to inquiries, or pre￾address a message form to a group of people with whom you often correspond. You can

do all of this and more using custom forms.

You can create templates and forms containing boilerplate text by editing the fields in the

form. But when you want to add or remove fields or use scripting with the form, you

need to use Design mode to open Outlook forms so that they can be edited.

You don't need a special program to use Design mode; it's part of every form included

with Outlook and is enabled when you tell Outlook you want to design a form.

You can open a form in Design mode two ways: by using Tools, Forms, Design a Form

and selecting a form from the dialog; or when a form is already open, by using its Tools,

Forms, Design this Form menu option. In any case, when it's a message form, it will look

similar to Figure 20.1.

Figure 20.1. A message form in Design mode. Hidden pages have parentheses

around their names. Drag fields from the Field Chooser to add them to a form or

create your own fields.