catagories I set up aren't in the library

[Guest]

I set up catagories in Outlook and they aren't in the library. There are a
couple of catagories that are and it won't let me go into them. On some of
my contacts I get this macro error message that's why I went to teh library
to find out the problem.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Library? I'm not sure what you mean about that. Outlook doesn't use the term "library" for any of its features.

What macro error message are you referring to?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Sue thanks for getting back to me. When I try to open some of my contacts
this message pops up 'The form this item has not been registered in your
company's forms library. Because it contains macros... & it asks if I want
to run the macro or not' I figured the problem was that some of my new
catagories and fields weren't in the library. The catagories that are in the
library (I didn't put them there) won't open. I have no idea what is going
on. I'm new to Outlook and out of 200 contacts about 90 I get this error
message and have no idea what I did. I never put any macros in Outlook so I
came to the conclusion that the problem was the library. I hope you can help
me here because I don't know what to do to fix this problem

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The message you are receiving refers to a custom form design. It has nothing to do with categories, as in the Categories property of a contact, which are simply one among many data properties on an item.

The symptoms certainly indicate that the items in question were created with a custom form that was not published in any of the forms libraries. "Macro" is a red herring. The message refers to VBScript code behind the custom form. A useful diagnostic might be to add the Size property to the current folder view and compare the size of the items that trigger this prompt with other items that don't.

I still don't understand what you mean by "the categories that are in the library."

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

OK I tried the size thing and sure enough they are 25K (the problem contacts)
The good contacts are only 1KB. I tried re entering a contact and the new 1
is only 1KB big. Not a clue what happened here.

When you make up a folder do you just make a copy of a file or do you move
it to that folder to save space? I want to get off on the right foot here.
Maybe I should make up groups instead?

We are a non-profit organization so I split them between Christian and Non
Christian organizations. From there each contact gets put in the project
they would be interested in .

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

OK I tried the size thing and sure enough they are 25K (the problem contacts)
The good contacts are only 1KB. I tried re entering a contact and the new 1
is only 1KB big. Not a clue what happened here.

Unless you have 25k more data in the problem contacts than in the "good" contacts, the symptoms suggest that the problem contacts are using a one-off form. That also fits with the other symptoms.

The easiest solution may be to update your copy of Outlook. I presume it is Outlook 2000, but that you have not applied Office Service Pack 2. That means you are working with a pretty old version that is not very secure.

When you make up a folder do you just make a copy of a file or do you move
it to that folder to save space? I want to get off on the right foot here.
Maybe I should make up groups instead?

I really don't know the answer to your questions, because you haven't provided any context for your scenario. Please tell us about it in more detail

We are a non-profit organization so I split them between Christian and Non
Christian organizations. From there each contact gets put in the project
they would be interested in .

You have a couple of choices. You can either keep them in separate folders since these classifications presumably don't overlap. Or you could keep them in the same folder, but use two different categories to distinguish the two types of items.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers