# What happened to Outlook? "Form required cannot be displayed" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-outlook-form-required-cannot-be-displayed/396720 "2007-03-20T15:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-outlook-form-required-cannot-be-displayed/396720/1 "2007-03-20T15:14:35Z")
The district I work for uses Novell Groupwise as our e-mail/calendar application. I despise it. That’s not the point, the point is that I had/have Outlook set up to work off-line for me as a calendar/datebook. I use a program called CompanionLink to synch it with my Google Calendar, and everything has been hunky-dory for months. Just out of the blue the other day, when try to create a new appointment on the calendar I get a message that says the “Form required to view this message cannot be displayed”. It happens regardless if I click on the empty date in the calendar, or use the drop down menu to make a New Appointment. I can open an existing appointment, but only after getting a message that says the same thing with an added “…Outlook will use an Outlook form instead” The only thing I can think of is that I installed a 2007 version of Streets & Trips that appears to have created a new default form in Outlook - something about synching appointments with places on the map. I uninstalled Streets, and reinstalled to see if there’s an option I need to not enable and didn’t see it. Anyone with a good idea how to make Outlook use it’s own default forms again? By the by - since this has happened, the CompanionLink isn’t working from Google to Outlook, but seems to be in the other direction.