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3.10 Understanding Message Classes
This is a tricky issue. One would expect the existing contacts you have in your Contacts folder to open with the new form. The reason they do not is because the existing contacts have a Message Class of IPM.Contact. The new form you created has a Message class of IPM.Contact.Custom.Contact. Unfortunately there is no standard way of doing this in Outlook. In a later article in this series we will look at a utility that will enable you to do this.
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Newsletter - 2005/01
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1 Profiling Contacts with the Outlook Forms Designer
2 The Task
3 The Steps
3.1 Opening the Form in Design Mode
3.2 Adding a Text Box
3.3 Adding a Combo Box
3.4 Adding a Multi-Selection Picklist
3.5 Renaming the Page
3.6 Publishing the Form
3.7 Saving a backup of the form
3.8 Setting this new form as the default form for the Folder
3.9 Entering the Data
3.10 Understanding Message Classes