Newby needs help customizing Contacts form

[Ian]

There sem to be a lot of clever people here, so I wondered whether anyone
mihgt be able to help. I am curently customizing an Outlook Contacts form.
The other day I somehow created a new field set for the new fields that I am
creating for this form. Today it seems that any new fields I create want to
go into, "User defined fields" rather than the field set I previously
created.
(I am only using the tools that come supplied with Outlook as I do not have
enough knowledge of VBA and the like to get any deeper yet.)
Later I will be using the fields on this form to mail merge with Word
documents, and I would like to keep these new fields together in field
chooser. Please can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't know what you mean by "field set." Any custom field that you add
will appear on the user-defined fields list. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/fields.htm for best practices.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook doesn't let you create new "field sets" in the Field Chooser, so I
don't understand what you might have done. Your custom fields should be in
the "User-defined" sets. The page I suggested should give you the
information you need on creating new fields if that's what it turns out you
need to do.

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

 

[Ian]

Many thanks for your prompt reply.
When I opened a previously designed form, gone to Tools - Forms - Design
this form, entered the password I set up and opened, "Field chooser" I got a
new small window called "field chooser". At the top of that is a drop down
list which starts with, "Frequently-used fields." I didn't know what to call
the things in that list, (Categories means something else in Outlook I
think), so I clicked on the question mark, "?" then on the list and it said,
"Lists field sets. Click a different field set to change the fields in the
list." So, in my last posting I called that list, "field sets", sorry if
that wasn't the correct term.
Anyway, somehow I seem to have created 2 new field sets (or whatever they're
called) but cannot remember how, or how to access them. In particular my
previous post was trying to get at how to add new fields to those sets. ( -
rather than the "user-defined" field set which seems to be the default.)
Since then, 2 of the fields that I had created have moved into 1 of those
new field sets, including 1 that is an error - I now want to delete it but
can't. Outlook only seems to let me delete user defined fields here, which
this isn't any more, if you see what I mean.
I'm sorry that this is sounding confusing. I really hope that you can make
sense of what I've written. Not knowing the correct terminology (or it being
post-midnight here in the UK) doesn't help. Nevertheless I really appreciate
your time and trouble in helping me.
I've looked at the website you hyperlinked. It is very impressive, but I
couldn't find the specific problem I'm trying to resolve here.
Best wishes,
Ian.