Microsoft KB Archive/265299

= OL97: You Cannot Use an Existing Template to Create a New Office Form =

Article ID: 265299

Article Last Modified on 1/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q265299





SYMPTOMS
When you try to use a custom Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word template to create a new Office document form, you cannot find a way to do this within the Outlook user interface.



CAUSE
New Office document forms can only be based on a blank template.



WORKAROUND
If you want to use a custom Office template to create a new Office form, open the template in the program that it was created in, copy the information that you want, and then paste that information in the new Office document form.

NOTE: Depending on the design of the custom template, some information cannot be easily transferred to a new template by using the copy and paste method.



MORE INFORMATION
To create an Office document form in Outlook:
 * 1) On the File menu, click New, and then click Office Document.
 * 2) In the New Office Document box, click Microsoft Word Document (or any other type of Office document form), and then click OK.
 * 3) Click either Post the document in this folder, or Send the document to someone, depending on the type of Office document form that you want to create, and then click OK.

