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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / April 2006Fowarding Custom Contact Forms
Hi There, I created a custom contact form in Outlook 2003 on my computer which I have inported into other computers in the office also running Outlook 2003. I then set up the Outlook Contacts folders in the other computers to use this custom form when posting to that folder. The custom form has the same name on each computer. And when you just open a new form on each computer, the custom form comes up. Here is the problem: Whenever we forward the custom contact records to each other via email in order to share contacts - the custom form is stripped of the custom fields. In other words, when you open the custom contact form on the recipient's computer - it opens in the standard format. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to share these custom forms? Thanks! What steps are you using to forward the items?  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi There, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks! Hi Sue, Your question has already lead me to some success! I was able to get thet custom contact form to forward with all the information by Action/Forward to the other computer we have with Outlook 2003 - so that problem is solved. Forward as vCard does not work. But we do have another computer in the office which is running an earlier Outlook version - which doesn't show a year when we click on properties. This version does not have the option of just forwarding a contact - only forwarding as a vCard - which doesn't work. Do you have any ideas on how to get around this? If there's no solution to this problem - we can live with it because I'm planning on getting a new computer with Outlook 2003 to replace this one at some point in the near future. Thanks! > What steps are you using to forward the items? > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > > Thanks! The way to check the Outlook version is to use the Help | About Microsoft Outlook dialog. In any version of Outlook, you can create a rich-text format message, then use the Insert | Item command to insert a contact. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >> What steps are you using to forward the items? >> >> > Hi There, [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> > >> > Thanks! Hi Sue, Ok, I created a rich-text message but then when I went to Insert - there is no "Item" option. There is object and file and picture and all those - but no Item. Any other ideas? Thanks! Nina > The way to check the Outlook version is to use the Help | About Microsoft Outlook dialog. > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > >> > > >> > Thanks! Try turning off Word as your email editor in Tools | Options | Mail Format. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> >> In any version of Outlook, you can create a rich-text format message, then use the Insert | Item command to insert a contact. >> >> > Hi Sue, [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Thanks! Thanks, Everyone! My employee with the older version of Outlook is out today - but I will try to email her a contact this way and vice versa and we'll see what happens. I'll report back. Thanks again for all your help! Nina > Try turning off Word as your email editor in Tools | Options | Mail Format. > > Hi Sue, [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks! Hi Again, Ok, with the tips that you have all suggested - using rt format for the mail message and then inserting the custom contact as an Item - i was able to email the custom contact form to my associate - who has Outlook 2000 by the way - with the formatting and new fields intact. Success! She was not able, however, to email the custom contact to me using the same technique. We made sure her email was rft as opposed to word and inserted it. Once I got the email - the custom formating and fields were not there. Does anyone have any other ideas or should I give up? :-) Thanks so much for all your help with this. Nina > Thanks, Everyone! My employee with the older version of Outlook is out today > - but I will try to email her a contact this way and vice versa and we'll see [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Thanks! See if saving it as an .msg file and then sending that fine works better. As you've probably guessed, custom forms were never designed to be used in the way you're trying to use yours. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Again, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> > Try turning off Word as your email editor in Tools | Options | Mail Format. >> > >> > > Hi Sue, [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > Thanks! ARe you using word as the message editor? If yes, don't. Use Outlook's native message format and you will see this option. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Neenm asked: | Hi Sue, | [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] ||||| ||||| Thanks! You'll see it with Word, too, just in a different place. It's in the Attachment icon dropdown (Hint: the Paperclip). SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > ARe you using word as the message editor? If yes, don't. Use Outlook's > native message format and you will see this option. [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] > ||||| > ||||| Thanks! HA! learn something new every day!! SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] asked: | You'll see it with Word, too, just in a different place. It's in the | Attachment icon dropdown (Hint: the Paperclip). [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] ||||||| ||||||| Thanks! I always find things when I use "Outlook logic:" look first in the last place you'd think of. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > HA! learn something new every day!! > [quoted text clipped - 67 lines] > ||||||| > ||||||| Thanks! |
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