I'm back with another question. I followed your suggestion, and it works
beautifully. The problem is that we had links in the Word form, so I had to
change the Outlook format to HTML in addition to using Word as the editor.
Now some of the email we receive daily that needs to be forwarded to our
clients takes forever to open in Word. If I change the mailformat to RTF,
forwarding those messages is no problem but the links don't work. Do you
know of a way to make the links work in RTF?
--
Maureen


"Russ" wrote:

This is surprisingly hard... why don't they have a "record macro" feature in
Outlook as they do in Word?

No matter. One easy way to record macros and then use them in Outlook,
avoiding a very costly macro programming learning curve, is to record them
in Word, then set Outlook to edit e-mail using the Word editor. Now, all
your Word macros (the ones saved in in Normal.dot) will be available when
composing e-mail.

To set Outlook 2003 to use Word as its editor, go to Tools, Options, then
Mail Format tab, click the checkbox that says "Use Microsoft Word 2003 to
Edit E-mail Messages", and Apply.

To record your macro, you can open a new e-mail message which will bring up
the Word editor, then use Tools, Macros, Record New Macro just like in Word.
If you are a VB bithead, you can still edit the macro in VB and apply
whatever customizations you need to the code. At least you're starting with
some stock code, rather than from scratch.

Now, "all your text are belong to Word." By doing this, I have a dropdown
that allows me to easily switch to an all-text format, so that should be
okay. I'm not sure of the security implications of using Word to compose
e-mail messages; I suppose if I have a macro virus in Word, I might be able
to spread it. Caveat emptor.

Hope this helps.