How to redesign O 2003 contact form without losing its original look?

[OSHM]

Hi all,

We just learned from this group that if you touch anything, even if you
slightly move a field, Contact form of Outlook 2003 loses its original look
and reverts to the contact form look of O2002.

How we can avoid that and add a field to the first page of Outlook 2003
contact form?

Thanks
Hakan

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You would have to design your custom form to mimic the look of the unmodified OL2003 form.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[MyKidzRGr8]

Can anyone explain why MS would bring out its latest and greatest Office suite and take a step backward in functionality? What possible reason could they have for not allowing the flexibility to modify the Outlook 03 Contact form? I don't expect to shell out money for an "upgrade" only to learn that I'm losing a feature that's important to me. I can't help but believe that someone has a workaround on this problem. If so, please share!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

There are several workarounds, including putting all customizations on pages
other than the first page and adding an image control to the first page.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Can anyone explain why MS would bring out its latest and greatest Office

suite and take a step backward in functionality? What possible reason could
they have for not allowing the flexibility to modify the Outlook 03 Contact
form? I don't expect to shell out money for an "upgrade" only to learn that
I'm losing a feature that's important to me. I can't help but believe that
someone has a workaround on this problem. If so, please share!