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outlook 2003 default .dot template with word 2003

Hi Experts,

I would like to know what is the default template for outlook 2003 using word as editor? i want to edit this default template to standardize things.

i googled about this and some people say it is email.dot and some other say it is newmail.dot? and on my outlook, it seems only take the normal.dot as the default? i am not sure why and how to change the default template to NOT use the normal.dot when i use outlook.

thanks

Chris Bottomley

I believe it will be called email.dot.

Chris

stevepcguy

I concur. It's email.dot. By default, it should automatically use email.dot when using email, even if you use Word as the email editor.

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nokyplease

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For some reason, it seems like my outlook 2003 don't pick up email.dot as it's default template and keeps using the normal.dot.

is there any policy that is related to this??

Chris Bottomley

Have you tried creating a new template in word and attaching outlook to it ... like I mentioned above?

Chris

nokyplease

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Hi,

It is working if i setup another template and attach it to outlook. However, I still would like to know how to make outlook automatically use the email.dot as default template? It is because I may need to change all users' outlook default template some time later and it will be a lot of work if i need to manually attach the template to each user's outlook.....

many thanks

Chris Bottomley

Ah, that is a different matter, I know nothing of automating these things as admin, so cannot help with that bit.

Chris

nokyplease

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i would like to know how to do it via group policy.