OL97: How to Protect a Custom Form from Changes

• Microsoft Outlook 97

SUMMARY

When you create a custom form in Microsoft Outlook 97, you can protect your form from changes by other users. The simplest way to accomplish this is by assigning a password to the form.

MORE INFORMATION

To assign a password to your form, do the following:

1. Open the form you want to customize, and on the Tools menu, click Design Outlook Form.



2. In design mode, click the Properties page and click to select "Protect form design."



3. In the Password box, enter a password. Enter the same password again in the Confirm box, and then click OK.

1. On the File menu, click "Publish Form As."



2. Enter a name for your form in the Form name box.



3. Click Publish In, select the folder to store the form, then click OK.



4. Click Publish.



5. On the File menu, click Close.

REFERENCES

For more information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook 97, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q166368 OL97: How to Get Help Programming with Outlook

Q170783 OL97: Q&A: Questions about Customizing or Programming Outlook

Additional query words: OutSol OutSol97

Keywords : FmsHowto
Version : 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto