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Making custom form default for contactsI am a beginner with Outlook. I am a new hire in a department that uses Outlook contact information in a Word Mail Merge process. I am teaching myself how this all works, and have been doing ok, but I am struggling with forms, particularly the form used for contacts. I don't have any problems modifying the form (for example to add FirstName and LastName fields), but I am very confused about how to get Outlook to use my modified form instead of the default custom contacts form. It seems to me that this should be a simple property setting, but I've had no luck tinkering with the various menu options. I've seen post suggesting registry changes are needed. Is it really this complicated to make my form the default? Any links to a tutorial on how to do this? Thanks! -- Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services Freeware Small Library Application available here: http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ Ok, I am closer... I was confused by the behaviour of the forms. I *have*
been able to modify a form and then set it as the default. I have tested this and when I add a new contact, the modified form is used. BUT... when I click on an *existing* contact, it doesn't use the new "default" form, but uses a different (older) form. Shouldn't all contacts use the "default" form? This behaviour had convinced me that my forms weren't being used as the "default" - when older contacts didn't display using the modified form, I assumed the "default" had not been set. So, does setting the "default" form only apply then to new contacts? If so, how do I force/import the older contacts to use the new form? Thanks! Fred Show quoteHide quote "Fred Boer" <fredboer1@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message news:%23XFKG4h8JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hello: > > I am a beginner with Outlook. I am a new hire in a department that uses > Outlook contact information in a Word Mail Merge process. I am teaching > myself how this all works, and have been doing ok, but I am struggling > with forms, particularly the form used for contacts. I don't have any > problems modifying the form (for example to add FirstName and LastName > fields), but I am very confused about how to get Outlook to use my > modified form instead of the default custom contacts form. > > It seems to me that this should be a simple property setting, but I've had > no luck tinkering with the various menu options. I've seen post suggesting > registry changes are needed. Is it really this complicated to make my form > the default? Any links to a tutorial on how to do this? Thanks! > > > -- > Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast > Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services > Freeware Small Library Application available here: > http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ > > > A contact is assigned a "MessageClass" at the time of creation (the
<default> for the folder) which is used when the item is displayed. You'll need a 3rd party utility to change the MessageClass for any contacts that existed prior to changing the <Default> for the folder. Either of the 2 free utilities below will do what you need: ContactGenie Message Class Modifier http://www.contactgenie.com/cgtmcm.htm DocMessageClass http://www.publicshareware.com/public-share-outlook-utilities.php Karl ___________________________________________________ Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter "Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007" http://www.contactgenie.com Show quoteHide quote "Fred Boer" <fredboer1@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message news:uBtSwHi8JHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Ok, I am closer... I was confused by the behaviour of the forms. I *have* > been able to modify a form and then set it as the default. I have tested > this and when I add a new contact, the modified form is used. BUT... when > I click on an *existing* contact, it doesn't use the new "default" form, > but uses a different (older) form. Shouldn't all contacts use the > "default" form? This behaviour had convinced me that my forms weren't > being used as the "default" - when older contacts didn't display using the > modified form, I assumed the "default" had not been set. > > So, does setting the "default" form only apply then to new contacts? If > so, how do I force/import the older contacts to use the new form? > > Thanks! > Fred > > "Fred Boer" <fredboer1@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message > news:%23XFKG4h8JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Hello: >> >> I am a beginner with Outlook. I am a new hire in a department that uses >> Outlook contact information in a Word Mail Merge process. I am teaching >> myself how this all works, and have been doing ok, but I am struggling >> with forms, particularly the form used for contacts. I don't have any >> problems modifying the form (for example to add FirstName and LastName >> fields), but I am very confused about how to get Outlook to use my >> modified form instead of the default custom contacts form. >> >> It seems to me that this should be a simple property setting, but I've >> had no luck tinkering with the various menu options. I've seen post >> suggesting registry changes are needed. Is it really this complicated to >> make my form the default? Any links to a tutorial on how to do this? >> Thanks! >> >> >> -- >> Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast >> Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services >> Freeware Small Library Application available here: >> http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ >> >> >> > > Dear Karl:
Thank you very much. I will be trying this out later today. Obviously the forms in Outlook are quite unlike forms I am used to in Microsoft Access! Cheers! Fred Show quoteHide quote "Karl Timmermans" <k***@claxton.com> wrote in message news:uc83l8l8JHA.1492@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >A contact is assigned a "MessageClass" at the time of creation (the ><default> for the folder) which is used when the item is displayed. You'll >need a 3rd party utility to change the MessageClass for any contacts that >existed prior to changing the <Default> for the folder. Either of the 2 >free utilities below will do what you need: > > ContactGenie Message Class Modifier > http://www.contactgenie.com/cgtmcm.htm > > DocMessageClass > http://www.publicshareware.com/public-share-outlook-utilities.php > > Karl > ___________________________________________________ > Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group > ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter > "Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007" > http://www.contactgenie.com > > > > > "Fred Boer" <fredboer1@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message > news:uBtSwHi8JHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Ok, I am closer... I was confused by the behaviour of the forms. I >> *have* been able to modify a form and then set it as the default. I have >> tested this and when I add a new contact, the modified form is used. >> BUT... when I click on an *existing* contact, it doesn't use the new >> "default" form, but uses a different (older) form. Shouldn't all contacts >> use the "default" form? This behaviour had convinced me that my forms >> weren't being used as the "default" - when older contacts didn't display >> using the modified form, I assumed the "default" had not been set. >> >> So, does setting the "default" form only apply then to new contacts? If >> so, how do I force/import the older contacts to use the new form? >> >> Thanks! >> Fred >> >> "Fred Boer" <fredboer1@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message >> news:%23XFKG4h8JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> Hello: >>> >>> I am a beginner with Outlook. I am a new hire in a department that uses >>> Outlook contact information in a Word Mail Merge process. I am teaching >>> myself how this all works, and have been doing ok, but I am struggling >>> with forms, particularly the form used for contacts. I don't have any >>> problems modifying the form (for example to add FirstName and LastName >>> fields), but I am very confused about how to get Outlook to use my >>> modified form instead of the default custom contacts form. >>> >>> It seems to me that this should be a simple property setting, but I've >>> had no luck tinkering with the various menu options. I've seen post >>> suggesting registry changes are needed. Is it really this complicated to >>> make my form the default? Any links to a tutorial on how to do this? >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast >>> Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services >>> Freeware Small Library Application available here: >>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > Thank you for telling me about this - and for making it available! Worked
great! Fred Show quoteHide quote "Karl Timmermans" <k***@claxton.com> wrote in message news:uc83l8l8JHA.1492@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >A contact is assigned a "MessageClass" at the time of creation (the ><default> for the folder) which is used when the item is displayed. You'll >need a 3rd party utility to change the MessageClass for any contacts that >existed prior to changing the <Default> for the folder. Either of the 2 >free utilities below will do what you need: > > ContactGenie Message Class Modifier > http://www.contactgenie.com/cgtmcm.htm > > DocMessageClass > http://www.publicshareware.com/public-share-outlook-utilities.php > > Karl > ___________________________________________________ > Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group > ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0 / Exporter > "Power contact importers/exporters for MS Outlook '2000/2007" > http://www.contactgenie.com > > > > > "Fred Boer" <fredboer1@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message > news:uBtSwHi8JHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Ok, I am closer... I was confused by the behaviour of the forms. I >> *have* been able to modify a form and then set it as the default. I have >> tested this and when I add a new contact, the modified form is used. >> BUT... when I click on an *existing* contact, it doesn't use the new >> "default" form, but uses a different (older) form. Shouldn't all contacts >> use the "default" form? This behaviour had convinced me that my forms >> weren't being used as the "default" - when older contacts didn't display >> using the modified form, I assumed the "default" had not been set. >> >> So, does setting the "default" form only apply then to new contacts? If >> so, how do I force/import the older contacts to use the new form? >> >> Thanks! >> Fred >> >> "Fred Boer" <fredboer1@NOyahooSPAM.com> wrote in message >> news:%23XFKG4h8JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> Hello: >>> >>> I am a beginner with Outlook. I am a new hire in a department that uses >>> Outlook contact information in a Word Mail Merge process. I am teaching >>> myself how this all works, and have been doing ok, but I am struggling >>> with forms, particularly the form used for contacts. I don't have any >>> problems modifying the form (for example to add FirstName and LastName >>> fields), but I am very confused about how to get Outlook to use my >>> modified form instead of the default custom contacts form. >>> >>> It seems to me that this should be a simple property setting, but I've >>> had no luck tinkering with the various menu options. I've seen post >>> suggesting registry changes are needed. Is it really this complicated to >>> make my form the default? Any links to a tutorial on how to do this? >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Fred Boer - Amateur Access Enthusiast >>> Interests: Library software / Z39.50 / Web Services >>> Freeware Small Library Application available here: >>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > 
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