How to migrate data from old form to new form?

[Yickers]

Hi friends,

Hope you have a moment to help me out. I am running a small nonprofit
with OL2002 and I have about 350 contacts. I created a new form that
will track new data on these contacts, so I would like to transfer
them all onto the new form.

I have exported them all into Excel, CSV, and other formats and tried
to import them onto the new form but to no avail. It seems like the
data is tied to the form somehow. Seems like there must be an easy
way to do this, but I don't know it. Am I really going to have to
re-enter all of my contacts on this new form?

Thanks very much!

Yickers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Throw away the export file. All you need to do is set the MessageClass property on the existing contacts to point to your custom form. See http://www.slipstick.com/dev/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools and scripts to accomplish this easily.

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