You can design a custom form page, and save it as a Form Region. This is
something new with Outlook 2007, and it makes designing a custom form much
easier, as a Form Region automatically carries with it the style of the
form. As far as I know, it's not possible to create the sort of
cross-referencing you describe with Outlook, but at least you'll have a page
where you can record more information on a contact.

--
Michael

"Montrose Lyle" wrote in message
...
Brian,

Thanks for your reply. You are right in that it is easy to add lots of
additional fields to a form. The hard part is doing the connections to
related records and groups.

As far as Outlook not being a Contact Manager, there seems to be a whole
section of the program called "Business Contact Manager". Why not a
"Personal Contact Manager"?

I could probably spend lots of time and design such a thing in Access, but
the problem is tying it back into my email program. I'm not the one with
the
expertise to do it. Microsoft has that expertise.
--
Lyle
Montrose, Colorado


"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Montrose Lyle wrote:

I've been using Outlook for years for business contacts, but now that
I've retired, personal contacts seem much more complex. Similar
improvements have been requested before, but since I just got Outlook
2007 and saw few improvements in the area of personal contacts, I
wanted to reiterate my (and probably millions of retirees needs).

I think your suggestions are good, but Outlook is not really a Contact
Manager, per se. Nonetheless, there's no reason why you couldn't design
your own Contacts form to include this information.
--
Brian Tillman