Hi Sue,

Thank you for that information. I know it is confusing and I'm not making it
any clearer. When I said I dont mind showing the original message on preview
window, I wanted to make a compromise. It's ok to show the original contents
on preview but atleast the user will see what I want him/her to see when the
message is opened. However I'd be happier to show my messageY on messageX's
preview window if it's possible. But I can live without that part as long as
I can show the messageY when user double clicks on messageX and opens it.

I know I can use Item_open on a custom form to call whatever functon to do
this. Now my questions are;

1.) Can I retrieve messageY in Item_open event and show that as opposed to
showing messageX? If so what's the command to retrieve a message?

3.) If I opt to custom forms, I'd have to publish it into Organizational
Forms Library to make it avaiable to all Outlook users, but how can I enforce
the Outlook users to use that form?

Thanks
Duke

1) That depends on what you mean by message -- an existing message, a saved
..msg file, etc. And what do you want to happen when the user replies or
forwards the message? Think through all those details.

3) You don't. Your server routine would need to change the value of the
message class for each affected message from IPM.Note to your published
form's class.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Duke2" wrote in message
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Hi Sue,

Thank you for that information. I know it is confusing and I'm not making
it
any clearer. When I said I dont mind showing the original message on
preview
window, I wanted to make a compromise. It's ok to show the original
contents
on preview but atleast the user will see what I want him/her to see when
the
message is opened. However I'd be happier to show my messageY on
messageX's
preview window if it's possible. But I can live without that part as long
as
I can show the messageY when user double clicks on messageX and opens it.

I know I can use Item_open on a custom form to call whatever functon to do
this. Now my questions are;

1.) Can I retrieve messageY in Item_open event and show that as opposed to
showing messageX? If so what's the command to retrieve a message?

3.) If I opt to custom forms, I'd have to publish it into Organizational
Forms Library to make it avaiable to all Outlook users, but how can I
enforce
the Outlook users to use that form?

Thanks
Duke