Outlook attachments

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Hi,

Any advise, one of the companies directors has made a request. initally I told him it was not possible. but just wondering if it is??

What he wants to do is have an attachment auto insert into an email when a specific email is entered/sent.

The attachment is a form which is stored on a server.

My first thought was how would outlook know when to attach the file?

I hope this makes sense,

So if anyone can help/point/guide in the right direction or just tell me that this is fantasy (come back to the real world!!!). As this department does have a habit of coming out with these type of idea's...

It would be interesting to know if it is possible!!

Thanks

 

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Off the top of my head - not sure.

Might be possible with a bit of VBA tho'

 

Does this help/do what you want ?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/infopath/HP010968751033.aspx

Uses Infopath

 

May be something useful here too :

http://email.about.com/cs/usingemail/a/email_forms_3.htm

 

Not what they are looking for, what they want is when someone sends an email to a specific email eg. [email protected]. they want outlook/exchange to auto attach a form to it as the form is in excel already.

I have given then the alternatives mentioned in the links above to see what they thinks.

Thanks UKDarkstar for the advise

 

Ah right, so they want an auto reply (like the out-of-office assistant) but the reply attaches an Excel form ?

Hmmn, that's suggesting back to VBA maybe in my mind unless others know different ? I'll have another look through my books and stuff to see if I can find any suggestions. If I do I'll post here or send you a PM.

 

OK, not sure if you use Exchange BUT if not (or if you can set the email as a POP box) then try this :

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011223851033.aspx

Basically you create a template for an outlook reply message (and you can attach the file) and then create rules so it does the autoreply when a message is received from the specified mailbox.

Not tried it so don't know if it will work but you could easy set one up and see.

Hope it helps !