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Hi Sue

Thanks for your reply. I am running an addin within
Excel attaches Excel files to emails. I think it is
using the mail.oft form. The addin does not give one the
option to write a message in the email.

I have located Tools | Forms | Design a Form but don't
know which form to ammend and overwrite.
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Tools | Forms | Design a Form. The real question is, why do you want to?

FYI, there is a newsgroup specifically for Outlook forms
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issues "down the hall" at
microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms or, via web
interface, at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-
us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



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Outlook does not use the mail.oft file for anything that I've been able to determine. Even if it did, why do you think amending that form would change the way the addin works? What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
It's a form intrinsic to Outlook. You can make a new form based on it, but you cannot change the standard message form itself. And while Outlook lets you substitute a custom form for any of the default standard forms, I would very strongly advise against doing that for the message form.

You still didn't answer my quesitons.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue

Thanks for your reply. I will try to answer your questions, I know it won't
change the way the addin works. What I would like to accomplish is to
include a standard body text in my emails as well as a standard attachment
plus the merged attachment, but the addin below does not provide this
facility.

I downloaded this "PATools Mail Merge" addin at
http://ukww.net/patools. It's function is to provide a simple facility to
run a mail merge entirely in Excel in a similar fashion to the facility
provided in Word. The results can be output to direct to individual emails
with Excel workbook attachments.

Please help you are my only hope to obtain a solution to this problem.
 
There's no solution intrinsic in Outlook for your scenario. Unless you want to write your own VBA mass mail application, the best solution probably would be to look for a different mass mailing tool that offers all the functionality that you want. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail for those known to work with Outlook.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks a lot Sue for all your help.

Sue Mosher said:
There's no solution intrinsic in Outlook for your scenario. Unless you want to write your own VBA mass mail application, the best solution probably would be to look for a different mass mailing tool that offers all the functionality that you want. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail for those known to work with Outlook.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
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