You need to tell Outlook to use your custom form as the default. See
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm for help with this.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
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> I was able to put in the fields I wanted, but when I open a new
> contact the fields default back to the original set-up. I want
> outlook to keep my field settings.