creating email Forms, please help!

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From: Andrew Cushen (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:17:56 -0700

Just a quick thought-

Have you checked the Contacts you're sending the problem e-
mails to? There is an option somewhere to always send
plain text e-mails to a given Contact.

You also might try setting the TOOLS | OPTIONS | MAIL
FORMAT setting to HTML.

HTH,

-Andrew
======================================
>-----Original Message-----
>(this is a repost of a question that I asked on August 19
>which got 0 replies. I really need some help!)
>I am trying to make up some email forms for frequently
>sent emails in Outlook 2000 on a Win 98 machine (sorry!).
>Each of the emails consist of the same custom HTML
>stationary with a different text message in the body.
>I have created 20 of these and saved them as Drafts. Now
I
>am turning these into Forms which end up being stored in
>User Templates in File System. To do this, I open each
>draft email and then chose Save As and change the file
>type to .oft Outlook template, named it and hit Save.
>Problem is, when I go to use the Forms to create new
email
>messages, some of them open up as plain text which
deletes
>all of my HTML. Some work just as expected and create my
>HTML email. I cannot figure out the difference or
problem.
>I am creating and saving them all exactly the same way,
>using the same keystrokes etc. I have tried re-creating
>them over and over to get the bad ones to work. I got one
>to work and I cannot tell you what I did
>differently (if anything)!
>.
>

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