change outlook message class

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Hello,
I have designed a form, published it and I changed the class of a contacts
folder to use that form. Now I dont want to use that form anymore, and I
want to restore the default contact form. what shall I do? and how to
restore it and change the class back to the defauls contacts form? i have
used this application from Microsoft's web site but it didnt work
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;201089. is there any
other tools? please help.
any help would be highly appreciated
 
I've used that method (the Word doc with the macro) a lot and it's fine.
What kind of errors are you running into?
 
Hello,
Thanx for your reply, well I'm not getting any errors, it just go through
processing then it finishes successfully, and when I double click on a
contact I get the form that I did and not the default one.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
Did you make sure it's selecting the right folder (contacts) and that you
specified IPM.contact as the type?

I don't remember the exact syntax, but there's a button that 'checks' before
processing - did you run that? Do you see the number of items shown that
will be processed?

If you create a new contacts folder & add contacts to it as a test, do they
look OK?
Hello,
Thanx for your reply, well I'm not getting any errors, it just go
through processing then it finishes successfully, and when I double
click on a contact I get the form that I did and not the default one.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
I've used that method (the Word doc with the macro) a lot and it's
fine. What kind of errors are you running into?
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Did you go through the process of right clicking on the contacts folder,
select properties and use the dropdown under "when posting to this folder
use...?"

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, M K W asked:

| Hello,
| Thanx for your reply, well I'm not getting any errors, it just go
| through processing then it finishes successfully, and when I double
| click on a contact I get the form that I did and not the default one.
|
| "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
| message || I've used that method (the Word doc with the macro) a lot and it's
|| fine. What kind of errors are you running into?
||
|| M K W wrote:
||| Hello,
||| I have designed a form, published it and I changed the class of a
||| contacts folder to use that form. Now I dont want to use that form
||| anymore, and I want to restore the default contact form. what shall
||| I do? and how to restore it and change the class back to the defauls
||| contacts form? i have used this application from Microsoft's web
||| site but it didnt work
||| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;201089. is
||| there any other tools? please help.
||| any help would be highly appreciated
 
Yes, and it goes through the process successfully but then nothing happens,
same form that I did. As for what Milly said, I did it too and I put Contact
from thr drop menu. if there is any other tool that will be great to try it.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Did you make sure it's selecting the right folder (contacts) and that you
specified IPM.contact as the type?

I don't remember the exact syntax, but there's a button that 'checks' before
processing - did you run that? Do you see the number of items shown that
will be processed?

If you create a new contacts folder & add contacts to it as a test, do they
look OK?
Hello,
Thanx for your reply, well I'm not getting any errors, it just go
through processing then it finishes successfully, and when I double
click on a contact I get the form that I did and not the default one.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
I've used that method (the Word doc with the macro) a lot and it's
fine. What kind of errors are you running into?

M K W wrote:
Hello,
I have designed a form, published it and I changed the class of a
contacts folder to use that form. Now I dont want to use that form
anymore, and I want to restore the default contact form. what shall
I do? and how to restore it and change the class back to the defauls
contacts form? i have used this application from Microsoft's web
site but it didnt work
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;201089. is
there any other tools? please help.
any help would be highly appreciated
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Hello,
Thank you for your reply, I tried this tool, it is great and easy. But it
didnt work on all contacts. I have contacts with the default form and
contacts with the designed form. Dunno whats going on, I tried to copy them
to a different folde but the same. The problem is that this tool tells me
that the current message class is IPM.Contact and when I click on convert,
it gives a message box reads 0 entries changed.


Diane Poremsky said:
Try this one... http://www.outlookstore.com/download/DocMessageClass.zip

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M K W said:
Hello,
I have designed a form, published it and I changed the class of a contacts
folder to use that form. Now I dont want to use that form anymore, and I
want to restore the default contact form. what shall I do? and how to
restore it and change the class back to the defauls contacts form? i have
used this application from Microsoft's web site but it didnt work
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;201089. is there
any
other tools? please help.
any help would be highly appreciated
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The tool is indicting that your contacts are using the default ipm.contact
form.... which is what you wanted.

when you open them, is it using the default form? - this means it worked
is a view showing fields that were in the old form? - you need to change the
view
is the icon a contacts icon or one used by the custom form? - it's a bug and
doesn't mean anything when you see the custom (or post) icon.



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M K W said:
Hello,
Thank you for your reply, I tried this tool, it is great and easy. But it
didnt work on all contacts. I have contacts with the default form and
contacts with the designed form. Dunno whats going on, I tried to copy
them
to a different folde but the same. The problem is that this tool tells me
that the current message class is IPM.Contact and when I click on convert,
it gives a message box reads 0 entries changed.


Diane Poremsky said:
Try this one... http://www.outlookstore.com/download/DocMessageClass.zip

--
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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

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M K W said:
Hello,
I have designed a form, published it and I changed the class of a contacts
folder to use that form. Now I dont want to use that form anymore, and
I
want to restore the default contact form. what shall I do? and how to
restore it and change the class back to the defauls contacts form? i have
used this application from Microsoft's web site but it didnt work
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;201089. is
there
any
other tools? please help.
any help would be highly appreciated
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Hello,

Well no it is not using the default form, thats what driving me crazy, I
still have some contacts that open in the form that I designed and some are
opening in the default form. I wish I could know whats going on and why..

Diane Poremsky said:
The tool is indicting that your contacts are using the default ipm.contact
form.... which is what you wanted.

when you open them, is it using the default form? - this means it worked
is a view showing fields that were in the old form? - you need to change the
view
is the icon a contacts icon or one used by the custom form? - it's a bug and
doesn't mean anything when you see the custom (or post) icon.



--

M K W said:
Hello,
Thank you for your reply, I tried this tool, it is great and easy. But it
didnt work on all contacts. I have contacts with the default form and
contacts with the designed form. Dunno whats going on, I tried to copy
them
to a different folde but the same. The problem is that this tool tells me
that the current message class is IPM.Contact and when I click on convert,
it gives a message box reads 0 entries changed.


Diane Poremsky said:
Try this one... http://www.outlookstore.com/download/DocMessageClass.zip

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

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Hello,
I have designed a form, published it and I changed the class of a contacts
folder to use that form. Now I dont want to use that form anymore, and
I
want to restore the default contact form. what shall I do? and how to
restore it and change the class back to the defauls contacts form? i have
used this application from Microsoft's web site but it didnt work
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;201089. is
there
any
other tools? please help.
any help would be highly appreciated
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Now when I want to make a new contact it uses the default form, but I still
have many contacts that are using the one I designed and contacts using the
defauls form (in the same folder) so I just want to let the contacts using
my form to use the default form. I dont care to the new data entered in the
new form, just I want to keep the data in the default fields to be copied.
please heeeeellllpppp.

M K W said:
Hello,

Well no it is not using the default form, thats what driving me crazy, I
still have some contacts that open in the form that I designed and some are
opening in the default form. I wish I could know whats going on and why..

Diane Poremsky said:
The tool is indicting that your contacts are using the default ipm.contact
form.... which is what you wanted.

when you open them, is it using the default form? - this means it worked
is a view showing fields that were in the old form? - you need to change the
view
is the icon a contacts icon or one used by the custom form? - it's a bug and
doesn't mean anything when you see the custom (or post) icon.



--

M K W said:
Hello,
Thank you for your reply, I tried this tool, it is great and easy. But it
didnt work on all contacts. I have contacts with the default form and
contacts with the designed form. Dunno whats going on, I tried to copy
them
to a different folde but the same. The problem is that this tool tells me
that the current message class is IPM.Contact and when I click on convert,
it gives a message box reads 0 entries changed.


Try this one... http://www.outlookstore.com/download/DocMessageClass.zip

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

Vote for your favorite Outlook and Exchange utilities in the
Slipstick Ratings Raffle at http://www.slipstick.com/contest/

Hello,
I have designed a form, published it and I changed the class of a
contacts
folder to use that form. Now I dont want to use that form anymore, and
I
want to restore the default contact form. what shall I do? and how to
restore it and change the class back to the defauls contacts form? i
have
used this application from Microsoft's web site but it didnt work
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;201089. is
there
any
other tools? please help.
any help would be highly appreciated
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