How to set up form for commonly used tasks and appointments?

[Guest]

I have used outlook for years, and on my PPC using Agenda Fusion, it is easy
to set up and use templates that you can use quickly for appointments and
tasks that I often use.....complete with priority/range of days, etc, so that
by choosing the item from a menu or toolbar, it is pretty much complete.

I have yet to find an easy way to do this with the desktop outlook. I have
tried experimenting with saving tasks as .oft files, but then cannot figure
out how to launch/use them from the menus or toolbar. Is there an easy way?
If I open the explorer file where they are located and double click on the
file, it creates the task that I want.

Is there an easy way to do this?

I also want to use these type of templates for the outlook appointments. For
example to same an "On Call" template that would simply mark an entire week
long appointment, with the category and type of appointment already
saves.....as well as one for things like "Vacation", that would quickly mark
out an entire week appointment as well. There are recurring appointments
that occur as well, that always last 2 hours.........that I would like to be
able to schedule quickly without having to start from scratch every time.

It seems like there would/should be an easy way to do this from the
desktop....since with PPC outlook and Agenda fusion it is easy. I would
rather use the desktop outlook if possible, and be able to do it from a
toolbar or menu launch.

Any thoughts?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Publish the forms rather than saving them as .oft files. To create a new instance of a custom form programmatically, you then use the Add method on the target folder's Items collection. If it's a message form, you can use the Drafts folder as the target. If the target is a default folder, you can use the Namespace.GetDefaultFolder method to return it as a MAPIFolder object. Otherwise, you can use the code at http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/getfolder.htm to walk the folder hierarchy and return the MAPIFolder corresponding to a given path string.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/launchform.htm for other ideas.