How to automatically update all fields in an Outlook template (OFT)?

[ngkatsaras]

I created an Outlook message template file (OFT), there is a pre-formatted message where the message body contains a couple of field codes as follows:

Dear {FILLIN "Recipient's name"}:

blah blah blah

Kind regards,

{FILLIN "Sender's name"}

This works fine except that whenever I open the template, the fields do not automatically prompt me to update. For now I have instructed the users to do CTRL+A then F9 which will then prompt the user to input the data to be merged into the fields. But that is not as elegant as I would like.

I found out that in a Word template file you could do a macro as follows that will automatically prompt the user for input to define the field codes:

Sub AutoNew()
ActiveDocument.Fields.Update
End Sub

However, I don't seem to be able to get that to work with the OFT file.

I also tried naming the Sub AutoOpen() but that didn't work either.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated in advance.

Kind regards,

Nick K.