Custom Contact Form Layout Problems

[mjmsmith78]

I'm having a problem customising any of the contact form, without
losing the default look and feel. As soon as I put the form into
design mode, the pages change to a different layout. It looks almost
pre-Windows XP like: plain grey, the controls are square with no round
buttons and everything is positioned differently.

How do I add extra buttons and text boxes without comprimising the
look of the contact form?

Some other posts indicated that it was only the first tab where this
happened, but when I changed one of the blank tabs, it still reverted
to a different layout.

Explanation of change of layout (suggests using a different tab)
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...m+contact+form+layout&rnum=4#b784deabfa5e7aab

Specific info on customising the contact form
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/contactform.htm

System:
Windows XP SP2
Outlook 2003 SP2

Matt

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook custom forms don't support theming. Gray is what you get (unless you manually change the page background color). Outlook 2007's new form regions display better.

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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