You don't need a custom form.You can just add the property using the UserProperties.Add method:

Set newProp = theItem.UserProperties.Add("Specialty", olText)
newProp.Value = theItem.User1
theItem.Save

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"Phyllis" wrote in message s.com...

Ah ... that's probably the problem. I don't have a custom form, I'm
just viewing the fields in a Phone List format (added those columns
into the view so that I can check the work). I did check that User
Field 1 includes the content. It's there ...

So, what would I need to adjust in my code to remove the reference to
the custom form?

Thanks for your help ... it shoudl be simple, but as I said, I'm really
novice with VBA.
Phyllis

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
The code you have assumes that all the items are using a custom form that has the Specialty property defined in it. Is that indeed the case? ALso have you checked the actual values in User1 to make sure they're non-blank?