You must create a custom property with a different name for use on your message form. Note that this form won't work unless you can publish it to the Organizational Forms library or each user's Personal Forms library.

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"Eric Knopp" wrote in message ...
I am trying to design a "New Hire" Message form for use with our HR
department. Some of the items they want to send in a form are
• Name
• Department
• Job Title

When I try to create a User-Defined field called Department, Outlook
complains that "A field with this name already exists in the 'All Contact
Fields' field set. Enter a different name."

In the Field Chooser Toolbox, I've tried adding "Contact" from the Forms...
window, to no avail, as the Contact drop down says there are (no fields
available)

I can use the Control Toolbox to create a Text Box, but am not sure this is
the right way to go.

Thank you,

Eric