Change the default contact form

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Tduke - 22 Jan 2004 17:02 GMT

I designed a new form for contacts and would like to use this as the
default. How do I do this?

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Chris W - 22 Jan 2004 17:58 GMT

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>I designed a new form for contacts and would like to use this as the
>default. How do I do this?
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From the file menue while the contacts file is open, go to
file-
Folder-
Properties for contacts-

on the General Tab, select your
new form as the "when posting to this folder, use:"

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Chris W - 23 Jan 2004 00:23 GMT

But what I would like to do now that I dont know how to do
is to take the over 1000 contacts I have on the standard
form and transfer all info to the new form. Anyway to do
that??

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Sue Mosher [MVP] - 23 Jan 2004 13:09 GMT

You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items to point to your
new form's class. See
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools
and scripts to accomplish this.

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> But what I would like to do now that I dont know how to do
> is to take the over 1000 contacts I have on the standard
> form and transfer all info to the new form. Anyway to do
> that??

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