Modifying View in Contacts

[Bob S]

I just bought Office XP, which had OL '02 in it. I like a lot of the
fields it has in under the General tab and the Details tab. I would
like to add a few fields from the "All Fields" tab at the bottom area
(which is now just blank) of the Details tab. How can I do that?

In particular, when I checked Help for "Add or remove fields in the
view", it said to click View/current view/customize current view. When
I did that in the Contact screen, the "Current view" was grayed out.
What setting do I need to change to fix this?

Thank you in advance for the help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. The Help topic you cited is about customizing the view of the entire Contacts folder, but the mention of the different tabs sounds like you want to customize the form that disiplays an individual contact.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Bob S]

Yes Sue, that is what I want to do. I would like to modify the form
used to display the individual contacts. Is there a way to do that?

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. The Help topic you cited is about customizing the view of the entire Contacts

folder, but the mention of the different tabs sounds like you want to
customize the form that disiplays an individual

contact.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

You can access the Outlook forms designer with Tools | Forms | Design a Form. These pages will introduce you to the basic issues and gotchas involved:

http://www.slipstick.com/dev/forms.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/contactform.htm

There is a separate newsgroup for Outlook forms issues -- microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms -- when you have specific questions.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Bob S]

Thank you Sue. These resources were most helpful. I have read the two
articles and will address further questions to the Outlook Forms NG.
Thanks again.