I only really want the active content when composing the message, after
it's been sent it's pretty redundant. Is there any way to compose using
one form type and send as another? There seems to be that option in the
formswap program, but it doesn't seem to work as I expect in Outlook.

Thanks,

Kristan

Wolfram Jahn wrote:
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:

Did you add the necessary registry value in the Office\11.0 hierarchy? Did you read this part of the article:

" This fix will only permit you to preview custom forms that do not have Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) code in them."


Hi Sue and Kristan,

I have a comment on this topic:

We also have our custom form which cannot display active content,
BUT if I take an email message and assign the message class of our
custom form, then - surprise - Outlook (2000) shows the content in the
preview pane until we save the modified message. All the code of the
custom form works perfectly in this modified message, just custom action
context menus in the explorer view.

Unfortunately, I did not find any way to use this knowledge to show our
native custom forms items in the preview pane.

Seems to be a very strange quirk in Outlook.


Wolfram