Outlook Form

I am working in Outlook 2003. When printing a form that was published as an
Outlook form template it only shows/prints the fields with data, but loses
all formatting, etc.

Why is this?

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.


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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

"Becka470" <Becka470@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message newsA925DA6-9ABB-401C-AC6C-404FFDD5E42E@microsoft.com...
>I am working in Outlook 2003. When printing a form that was published as an
> Outlook form template it only shows/prints the fields with data, but loses
> all formatting, etc.
>
> Why is this?

Thank you. That was helpful. Can the Word form template be published and
used in Outlook?

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

> 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
>
> "Becka470" <Becka470@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message newsA925DA6-9ABB-401C-AC6C-404FFDD5E42E@microsoft.com...
> >I am working in Outlook 2003. When printing a form that was published as an
> > Outlook form template it only shows/prints the fields with data, but loses
> > all formatting, etc.
> >
> > Why is this?
>

"publish" in the context of Outlook refers only to custom Outlook forms. Code behind a form can invoke Word objects to create a new document from a Word template .dot file saved on any drive.

--
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

"Becka470" <Becka470@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:811C4984-C35B-470F-B9C4-07303A8F94ED@microsoft.com...
> Thank you. That was helpful. Can the Word form template be published and
> used in Outlook?
>
> "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> "Becka470" <Becka470@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message newsA925DA6-9ABB-401C-AC6C-404FFDD5E42E@microsoft.com...
>> >I am working in Outlook 2003. When printing a form that was published as an
>> > Outlook form template it only shows/prints the fields with data, but loses
>> > all formatting, etc.
>> >
>> > Why is this?
>>