Posts Tagged ‘ custom forms ’

A frequent request is the ability to display a person's age on their birthday event in Outlook's calendar. We used to say "you can't" and pointed users to our custom form that displays a contact's current age. We've since learned of a way to use custom fields to populate the subject field – one...

Sometimes we get some interesting questions and the solution, while not useful to everyone, is worth mentioning. This is one of those questions. I must use the BCC most of the time because of confidentiality reasons. I have made mistakes a couple of times when I entered the email addresses of more than one...

You can use the Forms designer to design custom forms for Outlook. To open it, open any new form then go to Tools, Forms, Forms Designer (in older versions of Outlook). In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, you need to show the Developer ribbon before you can open the form in design mode.  Outlook 2010:...

When Microsoft Outlook forms are giving your problems, you may need to clear Outlook's Forms Cache.

Installing custom forms from the Microsoft Application farm isn't hard. In most cases, it's as easy as opening the form, or was until Outlook security was tightened down. Now you need to publish the forms yourself. It's still easy but requires a few more steps and a few minutes of your time. Download and...

I show you how to publish a custom form in Microsoft Outlook and set it as the default form for the folder. I also show you how to convert existing items to use your new form.

Would you like to be able to see the time you replied to or forwarded a message in your message list view? You can, using an Extension form configuration file (*.CFG) that exposes the hidden Extended MAPI property PR_LAST_VERB_EXECUTED, which holds the replied to/forwarded times. The best part is, you don't need to have...

How to change the tab order of fields in an Outlook form.

Q: I tried the date form sample on your site and it doesn't work. A: Forms containing scripts must be published. This prevents someone from sending you a form containing virus-like scripts. The scripts won't work unless you publish the form. You won't be warned that it needs to be published, so if a...

If you store custom templates in Outlook folders you'll have easy access to the template and won't need to browse the Tools, Forms, Choose Form menu looking for the template.