THis is normal, expected behavior. The new contact form layout in OL2003 and the included picture control are not available to programmers, who will see the older layout when they put an Outlook 2003 contact form into design mode. If you want to retain that layout, perform your customization on one of the blank customizable pages.

For other contact form idiosyncracies, see http://www.outlookcode.com/d/contactform.htm

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"fflei" wrote in message ...
I want to modify an existing form too - just add one field to a Contact
form, but whichever route I choose, whether from an open form choosing
Tools/Forms/Design this Form or via the main Outlook menu Tools/Forms etc,
the form I am offered is quite different from the one which is actually used
and whether I change it or not, if I save it, it completely rearranges the
entire layout.

Any thoughts on how I can actually modify *this* form - the one that already
exists - and not be given a totally different template?