Customizing Outlook Forms

[Thaddeus]

I have been customizing a contact form in outlook to
retain project data, contact information, etc. However,
in creating this form, I find I am limited to the number
of phone number fields I can enter. How do I create a
new textbox but make it recognize a phone number (and put
it into phoen number format) similar to the ones in a
basic contact? Also, is there a way to select a contact
from an address book and have all the information
contained in that selected contact displayed? What field
or button should be used to achieve this?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You cannot add new phone number fields.

 

[Abe Hendin]

You cannot add new phone number fields.

Couldn't you add textboxes for the numbers, and write your own code to
parse the numbers into the desired display format? Granted, it would be
a bit of work, and I'm sure you'd also have to write your own
auto-dialer if you wanted that functionality for the additional #s, but
if you just wanted to be able to display other phone numbers...

Abe

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You could, but they wouldn't show up in the phone number list, they wouldn't
be used by the Dial command, in short, they'd be text fields, not phone
numbers.

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

 

[Abe Hendin]

You could, but they wouldn't show up in the phone number list, they wouldn't
be used by the Dial command, in short, they'd be text fields, not phone
numbers.

Right.