Since *all* messages use IPM.Note, unless they are using a custom form, you shouldn't be able to open any messages if it's truly the problem. What happens if you try to open a forwarded message?

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"dfrahlic" wrote in message ...
I ran the Help | Detect & Repair in Outlook. It did not correct the problem.


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

You might try running Help | Detect and Repair in Outlook.

"dfrahlic" wrote in message ...
Outlook 2003 was installed. Outlook '97 was mistakenly installed shortly
after. Outlook '97 was then uninstalled. However, once I returned to
Outlook 2003, I no longer have the form for the email message.

Under the menu TOOLS -- FORMS -- CHOOSE FORM... then in the STANDARD FORMS
LIBRARY you see a list of the various forms Outlook uses; Appointment,
Contact, Distribution List, etc. One of the forms should be... Message. That
option is not there on my system.

Somehow the IPM.Note disappeared. I cannot open forwarded mail that uses
this form.

Does anyone know how to retrieve the standard Mail Message Outlook form?