I have created a New Contact form template (.oft) by editing the
standard "New Contact" form and want to use this template as the
"standard" contact form.  Can anyone tell me how to do this, so that
when I click on "New Contact", the new form I have created comes up.

Why don't the dashes automatically fill in when I enter a telephone number in
contacts? They do on my friends computer

We set-up a new computer with Outlook 2003 on an XP
system.  When we create an email, the address book that
pulls up is blank.  We have to manually select the old
address book.  How do we change the default to the old

Isn't there a quick, one-step way to "synch up" my Contacts base on my laptop
with my master database on my desktop?  And shouldn't that also be possible
in Calendar?
It sure was an easy one-click with my Palm VII.

Can anyone help me?
I have a large number of standard contacts that I want to paste or
merge into a newly template. Apart from typing all those cards by hand
again I have no idea how to do that.

I originally set "Business" as my default category for
new Contacts, and I have almost 3,000 with that
Category.  I have recently changed my default category
to "none."

At work they have just installed the XP. Before flushing
everything, they backed up my information.  Now that they
have installed all the new stuff and reinstalled all my
data, for some reason my "contacts" list is empty and they

I have recently changed my contact list from first name
first(ms default) to last name first. However, when I
create a Distribution List within the contact folder, the
names are still in first name order. How do I change them

When I type in the beginning of my email
addresses,(first 3 letters) the name does not  comes up
but the email address does work if you drill down in to
search.  Tried Q292882 NO JOY- have changed to another

I want to add contacts into address book in Outlook 2000. I've tried doing
the following :
- Right click contacts and select proporties,
- Select the 'Outlook Address Book' tab,

I use Outlook 2003 and for some reason the "file as" field is not appearing
for new contacts that I enter.  It only shows a pale gray highlighted field
with no information in it.  My other contacts are still ok and alphabetized
properly.

When I type in the beginning of some of my email
addresses, the name comes up and does the auto complete
but the email address does not. Then it asks me for the
adress when I want to send. what is wrong?

How do I automatically add email addresses that I reply to in my contact list
using
Office XP

I have recently had to reformat my hard drive and reload all programs onto
my computer.  I have all my old info as far as Outlook Contacts are
concerned however when i go to send an email there is no entries in the
address book.  Prior to reloading it, Outlook automatically used my ...

If I enter a spouse's name under the details tab is there
a way to get it to print out on a mailing label?
If I will be mailing to them as a couple regularly should
I enter the spouse's name along with the contact name in