Nothing prevents you from editing that page. The issue is that certain of the controls that define the look of the standard page are not available to developers except in versions that work only in form regions.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54


"Steve JORDI" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:22:35 -0400, "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

As the article you cited explains, developers will see a different layout when they put a contact form into design mode. The built-in layout is not available to be customized, except by adding a form region at the bottom.

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

Wow, if this sounds really stupid. Why the hell wouldn't we be allowed
to edit one of the most important forms? I don't understand why
MicrobeSoft didn't allow this.
At least they could disable the "Design this form" for that specific
form. Or show a dialog box stating that this form is reserved and not
available for editing.