Sue-

I'm totally inexperienced in this. Does my customized form have to be
published internally for this to work?

I do have someone who can help me with VBA code, but I better know the
quirks of Outlook...
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Richard


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You're on the right track. What you need to do is create a completely new message (Application.CreateItem), populate its Recipients collection, set its Subject and HTMLBody properties and send that message, not the custom form message. You should never send a custom form message externally.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Richard" wrote in message ...
Hi-

I need some way of shipping people external to my agency at least the
contents of a customized form, even if I lose the formatting. The only
method I can think at present is to build a button to execute some sort of
macro or code onto a customized form that saves the form as text, and then
attaching that text to the e-mail that goes externally.

The goal of the form is notify residential providers that we need placement
for an especially troubled child, while supplying the providers with all the
steps, dates and decisions (and the full list of people involved in those
decisions) that have been completed to date by my agency's staff.

Thanks for your help and suggestions.

I use Outlook 2000, others have 2003.

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Richard