Publishing Office 2003 to Exchange 5.5 public folders

[Guest]

We are now just starting the upgrade from Office 97 / Outlook 2000 to Office 2003. We have several Office forms (Word & Excel) published to various Exchange 5.5 public folders. After investigating Outlook 2003 we have not been able to find a way to publish a new Word or Excel 2003 document to Exchange 5.5 public folders as we were able to with Office 97 / Outlook 2000. Can you provide assistance?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

To create a new Word or Excel Office document form, you need to base it on
an existing Office 2000 form. I've posted blank ones at
http://www.outlookcode.com/files/ODforms.zip . After you download the file,
unzip it, and open the Office Document forms.pst file in Outlook using the
File | Open | Outlook Data File command.

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

We are now just starting the upgrade from Office 97 / Outlook 2000 to

Office 2003. We have several Office forms (Word & Excel) published to
various Exchange 5.5 public folders. After investigating Outlook 2003 we
have not been able to find a way to publish a new Word or Excel 2003
document to Exchange 5.5 public folders as we were able to with Office 97 /
Outlook 2000. Can you provide assistance?

 

[Guest]

Any ideas as to why this feature was removed from Office 2003? Is there a better option - or is InfoPath the answer?

Thank you very much for your help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

As I said, you can use such forms are still supported; you just have to use
an Outlook 2000 template as a starting point.

I suspect the feature was changed because few people used it.

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

Any ideas as to why this feature was removed from Office 2003? Is there a

better option - or is InfoPath the answer?