I want to make a new contact form and apply it my current contacts

[Locke]

I run a employment agency. I want to reconfigure my general page of contact
layout to have more fields that will help in my look up of individuals. I can
change the fields and get a form that works but the picture contact goes away
and I can't get the form to be applied to my already existing contacts?
Help... me Mr. Wizards..

 

[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

You can change the MessageClass on the existing items to point to your new
form's class, once you publish the form. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools
and scripts to accomplish this.