Beginning with Outlook 2003 SP2, users can work with most .oft form templates files only by opening the template from the Tools | Forms | Choose Form dialog, browsing for User Templates in File System. This means that if the .oft file is sent as a message attachment, the user must save it to the local hard drive first.

The article at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=907985 explains this change in more detail, suggests best practices, and provides registry keys that can return Outlook 2003 to the older, less secure behavior.

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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

wrote in message ups.com...
Here is the problem: I design an Outlook custom form, and save it to
my desktop as an .oft file. Then I save a copy of that .oft file onto
our network drive at work. The question is, when someone else on
another computer double clicks that file, will it open as the from that
I created? Or do I have to publish it, and then have others access it
through the Outlook forms library? (Tools - Forms - Choose Form...)



Thanks,