PMJI, but custom fields and views are my one of my hobbies. When you created
those new fields, nothing was supposed to appear, except that the fields
show up on the Field Chooser under User-defined Fields in Folder. You can
then add them to the view. Or work with them on the All Fields page of any
open contact item.

I don't know what you were thinking of or what you did in terms of
"subfiles."

If you have a distribution list that contains names and addresses that you
don't have elsewhere, you can save it as a text file, open it in Notepad to
strip out the information before the names and addresses, then import it
back into Outlook as a tab-delimited text file.

What do you mean by "cut off" with respect to the addresses and phone
numbers? That there isn't enough room to show them? If so, maximum the
window and drag the column border to make the columns wider and show fewer
of them at one time.