Office 2003 using Word 2003 as editor - Normal.dot for new email

[JayKusch]

I am using Outlook Prof 2003 and Word 2003 as my email editor.

I have set up a signature file which is being brought in just great.

Issue is that when I start a NEW, "untitled message" the first line has the Bold and Italics option set ON and the second line has the Italics set and the font size at 24 and Baskerville - lol.

How do I remove these lines from the template that is used when a new email is created?

Is there some Normal.dot I need to tweak?

Thanks ALL!

Thanks

J. Kusch

 

[kjv1611]

In Outlook, try going to Tools-> Forms -> Choose Form

Then, change the "look-in" folder to "Outlook Folders".

Then, choose "Properties" - I'm guessing that might be where you change those settings.

Also, the outlook template is found at:
c:\documents and settings\yourname\appdata\microsoft\templates\... and is Mail.oft, I think. But I think your best bet is to try and deal with it from the Outlook Forms library. You might can even create a new one in place of the old "Message" form, if it will not let you edit it - not sure.

 

[kjv1611]

Ooo, I think I may have found your problem.

Open Word.
Go to Tools -> Options -> General Tab -> Email Options (button), then "Personal Stationary" tab. See if you have anything selected there - it looks like you can format the fonts, etc for new email messages in Word there.

Try that, and let me know. I found that while looking in Google user groups... was an old posting from a few years back.

Here is the link:
[URL unfurl="true"]http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms/browse_thread/thread/7dcdc3cd12b56951/4d5962a8c0790696?lnk=st&q=edit+outlook+message+template+-create+messages+-templates+-%22error+message%22&rnum=7&hl=en#4d5962a8c0790696[/url]

 

[JayKusch]

Thanks for the info ... some how I have squared it away. I no longer have the first two lines of the email template having all that formatting garbage I mentioned above.

I did tweak thru the Word interface and not the Outlook interface though.

Thanks for the help!

Thanks

J. Kusch

 

[kjv1611]

Open Word.

that would be tweaking through Word, not Outlook. My first post mentioned Outlook, the last, Word.

Nonetheless, you get your problem fixed.

 

[JayKusch]

Agreed!

I fixed my issue 2 days ago before I recieved you kind posts.

Thanks for the insight. I will try to go back and duplicate my efforts based on what I remember and what you have relayed.

I do not have any stationary turned on so it would have not been found in that area.

Maybe I can find the exact tweaks I performed and I will then post them for others to learn from.

Thanks again and have a great day!

Thanks

J. Kusch

 

[kjv1611]

Sounds great!