OL97: How to Protect a Custom Form from Changes

ID: Q168025

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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.
When the design of your form is complete publish your form by doing the following:

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.

If anyone attempts to switch to design mode while in the form, they will be prompted to enter the password. The correct password must be typed to make changes.

REFERENCES

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

   Article-ID: Q166368
   Title     : OL97: How to Get Help Programming with Outlook

   Article-ID: Q170783
   Title     : OL97: Q&A: Questions about Customizing or
               Programming Outlook
Additional query words: OutSol OutSol97 

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

Last Reviewed: December 30, 1998