I changed the setting that told Outlook to use Word as the email editor but
my custom form still does not show. When I change the setting for Reply on
the Standard message form, it does not save when I press Save. Is this the
correct form I should be changing?



"Hollis Paul" wrote:

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Is it possible to use Outlook Forms to have a custom reply form that reads
certain information from the message you are replying from (such as date
sent, subject, who it was to etc) and then puts them into the Subject line of
the new mail message? Some starter pointers would be very much appreciated

I have done loads of VBA in Excel and Access but Outlook is completely new
to me!

At this point you really do not need to do VBA, but Outlook VBA works much the
same.

Now, to begin with, are you wanting to reply to a message that uses a custom
form. If so, then you can, in design mode, go to the Actions page and replace
the default reply action, which uses the standard form, with a call to a
subroutine that instantiates your custom reply form, and loads it with the field
data from your current form, and then sends it. The trick here is to
instantiate the form with a named object, so you can use that object name to
reference the new message. Then, you gather up the field data from the current
form, construct the subject line string, and set the subject line variable in
the new message: myReply.Subject = "mySubjectstring" . Then send it on its way
and close the current message.

But, make that change after you publish your custom reply message.

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Hollis Paul
Mukilteo, WA USA