I'm creating a few custom forms based on the email message template. I've
had a few issues and request your assistance to solve them.

(1) The MS Outlook preview pane will not display the contents of the custom
form. Hence it appears that you have received a blank message until you open
it...can you help me sort this out? Ideally I'd like to display multiple
fields in the preview pane...the contents of the form.

The next several revolve around printing these custom forms:

(2) Next, I want to print the form, but I don't want the standard header
email message header to appear. I want something custom here as well
(example I want the "Subject:" line to read "Unit / Sales Report Date:".

(3) Next, I want to clean up the form in print preview mode (it is messy and
unprofessional). Details below. How can I control the print formatting?

(a) I've noticed that "User Defined Fields" are displayed/printed in some
random order the program decides...irregardless of their layout on the "Edit
Read" page.

(b) The fields names over overlap or are so close that they obsure data.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/customprint.htm for various solutions to the limitation that Outlook forms don't support WYSIWYG printing. The Word template technique is the most flexible and highly recommended.

--
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


"macus" wrote in message ...
I'm creating a few custom forms based on the email message template. I've
had a few issues and request your assistance to solve them.

(1) The MS Outlook preview pane will not display the contents of the custom
form. Hence it appears that you have received a blank message until you open
it...can you help me sort this out? Ideally I'd like to display multiple
fields in the preview pane...the contents of the form.

The next several revolve around printing these custom forms:

(2) Next, I want to print the form, but I don't want the standard header
email message header to appear. I want something custom here as well
(example I want the "Subject:" line to read "Unit / Sales Report Date:".

(3) Next, I want to clean up the form in print preview mode (it is messy and
unprofessional). Details below. How can I control the print formatting?

(a) I've noticed that "User Defined Fields" are displayed/printed in some
random order the program decides...irregardless of their layout on the "Edit
Read" page.

(b) The fields names over overlap or are so close that they obsure data.