Customising Form Problem

[Vilem Sova]

In Outlook 2003 when I go to Tools -> Forms -> Design This Form in order to
modify the Contacts form, the form appearance changes from the latest 2003
appearance/style to the older 2002 (or 2000?) style. But its not just the
style that changes in design view, but layout/location of controls etc.

Even when I choose the Design A Form option and select the Contact form in
the Standard Forms Library the older style Contact form appears in design
view.

I have downloaded and run the FormsAdmin utility from Microsoft but this has
not fixed the problem.

Any help/suggestions is appreciated.

Thanks
Vilem Sova

 

[Nicole]

I have the same problem...see post on 9/1/2004 Subject: Publish/Design
Contact Form in Outlook.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The new contact form layout in OL2003 and the included picture control are
not available to programmers, who will see the older layout when they put an
Outlook 2003 contact form into design mode. One workaround is to use an
image control, as described at
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/formpicture.htm#control .

For other contact form idiosyncracies, see
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/contactform.htm

 

[Vilem Sova]

Thanks, but how do I access such an old post?

Vilem Sova

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

At http://groups.google.com, you can search years' worth of posts from this
group.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers