You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items to point to your
new form's class. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools
and scripts to accomplish this.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx
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>I have created a custom form for Contacts in a public folder. It works for
> new contacts that I created after I changed the default form to my custom
> form. The existing contacts continue to use the lod default form. It
> there
> a way to get the existing contacts to use the new form?