The idea behind EBCs is not that you will edit all your contacts to give each of them an EBC with a different look, but that each of those contacts will create their own EBC and use it in their signature. Thus, over time, you would collect EBCs from each of your contacts as you added them to your Contacts folder, each EBC looking the way that contact wants it to look.

Your idea about having different default layouts for EBCs that come from contacts ***you create*** is an intriguing one, though. That's something that an enterprising developer certainly could build as an add-in. The EBC layout, BTW, is stored as XML in each contact item.

Microsoft is working on a sample application that shows how a company might provide templates through either a SharePoint 2007 site or an ASP.NET 2.0 site for employees to create their company EBCs in approved formats. Hopefully it will show up soon at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/developer/solutions.mspx

Also, your link to business cards on the Office templates site points to templates for printing cards. Nothing there (at least not yet) to do with EBCs.

FYI, the best way to provide feedback on Outlook 2007 Beta 2, is to get the Send a Smile tool from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A2E1F4E2-BC0F-4403-B09F
-7A677D55F274. This tool will transmit your comments and a screenshot back to Microsoft. For more information, see http://spaces.msn.com/turtleflock-ol2007/blog/cns!C1013F1F9A99E3D8!135.entry