2003 custom fields to 2007

[Guest]

I am planning on installing OL 2007 this weekend. I have many custom fields
in Outlook 2003. Will the information in these stay with the contacts?

Also, will I need to redesign my contact custom form or will this be brought
forward into 2007?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

As long as you're using the same data store, both the fields and the form should work the same.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Sue. I presume you mean by 'data store' a pst file? The custom
fields are in my contact custom form. So does that mean the info will be
carried forward into 2007?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

As Sue said, only if you reuse your .pst file and don't try the import option.

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After furious head scratching, GolfGal asked:

| Thanks Sue. I presume you mean by 'data store' a pst file? The
| custom fields are in my contact custom form. So does that mean the
| info will be carried forward into 2007?
|
| "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| As long as you're using the same data store, both the fields and the
|| form should work the same.
||
|| --
|| Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
|| Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
|| Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
|| http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
||
||
||
||| I am planning on installing OL 2007 this weekend. I have many
||| custom fields in Outlook 2003. Will the information in these stay
||| with the contacts?
|||
||| Also, will I need to redesign my contact custom form or will this
||| be brought forward into 2007?
|||
||| Thanks for the help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, a .pst file is a data store. So is an Exchange mailbox. We had no way of knowing which you use.

The data is not in the form. The data is in the contact items, which won't change when you use the in a different version of Outlook.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Make that "when you use the same .pst file in a different version"

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


Yes, a .pst file is a data store. So is an Exchange mailbox. We had no way of knowing which you use.

The data is not in the form. The data is in the contact items, which won't change when you use the in a different version of Outlook.