forms
 

I have been asked to create a form in Outlook that can be used as a telephone
message. I have created the form in Tasks, with all the custom fields that I
need. However, this message will be sent to a young lady in another part of
the office, used to pull the patient's medical record, and then be completed
by the nurse/physician. I want to print it with my fields intact, but the
only option I can find is the memo style print option. Even if I try to
modify it, I don't have the options to keep the fields.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!

forms
 

Memo style is all that's available for a task form and there are no
customizations you can make to that style for a task that allows you to set
the fields you want printed.

Outlook in general hasn't updated or enhanced its printing since Outlook 97,
and it has very limited printing options.

What most of us do in cases like this is to use code to take all the
information we want printed and put that into a Word template or Excel
worksheet for printing. That allows complete control over what's printed and
how.

There are examples of that in many Outlook programming books, as well as
some samples at www.outlookcode.com.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"KimY" wrote in message
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I have been asked to create a form in Outlook that can be used as a
telephone
message. I have created the form in Tasks, with all the custom fields
that I
need. However, this message will be sent to a young lady in another part
of
the office, used to pull the patient's medical record, and then be
completed
by the nurse/physician. I want to print it with my fields intact, but the
only option I can find is the memo style print option. Even if I try to
modify it, I don't have the options to keep the fields.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!