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and the contents of the original message included with the reply, and not
the newly added user fields that I would also have wanted in the reply
contents for tracking purposes.
Is there a way to include the values of the user fields in the reply?

The "reply" code is what Microsoft provided to handle standard messages in
the limited way that they provided. I view it as private code, and you will
not be able to change it.

To get the functionality that you want, you will have to delete the reply
action that MS puts in every message and create your own "reply" action.
This should use code to explicity copy the old message into a new message,
but using objects you have named, so that, once the new message is created,
you can use those objects to copy in your specific field data.

Take a look at these pages to see how to go about this:

Creating a "New Fax to Contact" Action 5/10/2006
New Fax to Contact sample form for Microsoft Outlook, demonstrating use of a
custom action
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms/contfax.htm - 19 KB

Customizing Microsoft Outlook Message Forms 5/10/2006
Quirks, limitations, samples and other resources for designing custom
Message forms for Microsoft Outlook
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/messageform.htm - 23 KB

For background, look at this page:
http://www.slipstick.com/emo/1997/up970804.htm#custom
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Hollis Paul
Mukilteo, WA USA