Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Creating an Email Template

You can create an email template from any Outlook item, but you cannot use Microsoft Word as your email editor when creating Outlook templates. To disable Word as your email editor, select Tools, Options, Mail Format, and uncheck the box marked Use Microsoft Word to Edit Email Messages. Click OK to apply your changes. You're now ready to create a basic email template.

To illustrate this process, let's create an email template to email your supervisor a daily email report using the following steps:

1.	Open a new email message.
2.	Enter a subject and body for your email message.
3.	Use the To button to select your supervisor's name from your address book.
4.	Select File, Save As to display the Save As dialog box as seen ...