Adding and Arranging Controls

The real power of forms comes from the controls you place on them. To construct a robust Outlook 2007 forms solution, you need to carefully plan what the form is supposed to do; what pieces of information it will display, modify, save, or send; which controls will display these information units; and how the controls will be laid out. You can put two types of controls on a form: a control bound to an Outlook 2007 field and a control that is not bound. This section looks first at field-bound controls. Field-bound controls are bound to specific control types, such as drop-down lists, text boxes, command buttons, labels, or check boxes.

To display a field on your form, follow these steps:

  1. Display the Field Chooser, and ...

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