Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Creating Custom Forms from Scratch

Working with standard forms is great if you want to build a solution that is directly related to one of the Outlook 2007 item types. However, you might need an Outlook 2007 form that isn’t based on an item type at all. For example, you might want to create a form that allows users to report their work hours or initiate a purchase order. Although you could base these examples on a standard form, they could just as easily require a completely new form that you need to create.

The good news is that creating a completely new form is easier than it sounds. In fact, Outlook 2007 doesn’t really permit you to create forms completely from scratch, although you can certainly achieve the same effect. You have two ways to ...