I'm setting up a Rule to be used to Reply to every sender with my new email
address. In the Rules Wizard, I selected "reply using a specific template"
and the system pointed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\1033\MAIL.OFT. But that is an empty template; how do I
configure it to include the message text? I tried copying it and adding the
Subject and text but it did not save the changes.

Thx,

Create a message template of your own;
Set Outlook as your email editor (since you are using Outlook 2003), create
a message with only a subject and a body and save it as an oft-file via;
File-> Save As...

You can save this file in any convenient location such as \My
Documents\Outlook.

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"Geoff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9633A008-BA4D-4E64-85AD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm setting up a Rule to be used to Reply to every sender with my new
> email
> address. In the Rules Wizard, I selected "reply using a specific
> template"
> and the system pointed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> Office\Templates\1033\MAIL.OFT. But that is an empty template; how do I
> configure it to include the message text? I tried copying it and adding
> the
> Subject and text but it did not save the changes.
>
> Thx,
>