Migrate contacts data onto new custom form - how?

[Yickers]

Greetings all - I have 250 contact records that I would like to migrate onto a new custom form. I have tried exporting the contacts into every type of file imaginable and then importing into the new form, without any success - they import to the same standard form. Can anyone give me a clue how to perform this operation? Thanks!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items to point to your new form's class. See http://www.slipstick.com/dev/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools and scripts to accomplish this easily.

FYI, there is a separate newsgroup for Outlook forms issues -- microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms.

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