Custom Contat Form Being Used in Mail Merge/Import Problem

[Kari Auna]

Hello to all:

Using Outlook 2000, I created a customer contact form and published it to my folder. Now I am stuck with a "pretty" form that isn't user friendly. My problems are the following:

1. When filling in the form, how do I get the fields to tab correctly. Currently when you hit the tab key it jumps to fields at different locations on the form?
2. When performing a mail merge originating from MS Outlook contacts, Word doesn't recognize my custom fields. PS On another form someone designed for me previously, the fields do show up, so it is possible...what am I doing wrong?
3. I would like to import my database from Excel into this newly created form, but again the custom user defined fields do not show up in order to map.

If anyone can get me help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you kindly.
KA

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

1) In form design mode, Layout | Tab Order.

2) Start the merge from within the contacts folder, not from Word. Make sure the fields are defined in the folder, not just in the individual items and form.

3) Outlook doesn't support importing to a custom form. You'd have to write custom code or use a third-party application. See http://www.slipstick.com/dev/customimport.htm.

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[Hollis D. Paul]

3. I would like to import my database from Excel into this newly created form, but again the custom user defined fields do not show up in order to map.

You need to write your own code to do the "import" using custom fields. Go to
www.slipstick.com and search on 'import', without the quotes, and you will find an
example showing how to do this.

Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
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