Hi I'm new to Outlook forms, having spent more time creating Access type
forms, so perhaps I am looking for the wrong thing...

I want to put a field on a form that has a particular layout eg:
projectname-number-date

so in Access I would put in a mask something like Aaaaaaaa-000000-99/99/99

could someone point me in the right direction to get started doing this in
Outlook?

I'm using 2003 and will be using the form "internally" but the users are
connecting to the exchange remotely and may use web access, but that is of
much lesser importance.

Thanks

Outlook does not include any native masked edit controls. Perhaps a solution in your case is to have three fields to take the user's input, then use a formula on a fourth field to build the concatenated value.

Also, Outlook custom forms do not translate into OWA UI or functionality at all.

--
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

"HelenJ" wrote in message ...
Hi I'm new to Outlook forms, having spent more time creating Access type
forms, so perhaps I am looking for the wrong thing...

I want to put a field on a form that has a particular layout eg:
projectname-number-date

so in Access I would put in a mask something like Aaaaaaaa-000000-99/99/99

could someone point me in the right direction to get started doing this in
Outlook?

I'm using 2003 and will be using the form "internally" but the users are
connecting to the exchange remotely and may use web access, but that is of
much lesser importance.

Thanks

Thanks Sue - you have confirmed what I thought!

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Outlook does not include any native masked edit controls. Perhaps a solution in your case is to have three fields to take the user's input, then use a formula on a fourth field to build the concatenated value.

Also, Outlook custom forms do not translate into OWA UI or functionality at all.

--
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

"HelenJ" wrote in message ...
Hi I'm new to Outlook forms, having spent more time creating Access type
forms, so perhaps I am looking for the wrong thing...

I want to put a field on a form that has a particular layout eg:
projectname-number-date

so in Access I would put in a mask something like Aaaaaaaa-000000-99/99/99

could someone point me in the right direction to get started doing this in
Outlook?

I'm using 2003 and will be using the form "internally" but the users are
connecting to the exchange remotely and may use web access, but that is of
much lesser importance.

Thanks