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Old January 21st 06, 04:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Spike9458
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Hi all,

I'm working on an email/snailmail database in Outlook. I customized the
contact form and gave it a new name, published it, used the FormAdmin tool
to change it to the default, but now when I click on new contact it launches
a MAIL form. How do I go back and either go back to the default contact form
or have my form come up?

Thanks,

--Jim
WindowsXP sp2, Office 2003 sp2


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Old January 23rd 06, 05:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Nick B
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Default New Form Goof

Never tried the FormAdmin tool. But if you right-click on your Contacts
folder, what is the default folder set there?

"Spike9458" wrote:

Hi all,

I'm working on an email/snailmail database in Outlook. I customized the
contact form and gave it a new name, published it, used the FormAdmin tool
to change it to the default, but now when I click on new contact it launches
a MAIL form. How do I go back and either go back to the default contact form
or have my form come up?

Thanks,

--Jim
WindowsXP sp2, Office 2003 sp2



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Old January 23rd 06, 06:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]
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Default New Form Goof

What the FormsAdmin tool does is make a change in the Windows registry, adding new keys to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Ou tlook\Custom Forms key. Microsoft released the tool only for Office 2000, which corresponds to version 9.0 of Office. However, if you have a later version of Outlook, you may have used the FormsAdmin tool to export a .reg file and may have edited the key to replace 9.0 with 10.0 for Outlook 2002 or 11.0 for Outlook 2003, then imported the .reg file to make the change.

To resolve the problem, you can use the registry editor to navigate to the Outlook\Custom Forms key corresponding to your version of Office. There you will see subkeys for Compose and Read. Under each of those keys, delete the value named IPM.Contact. This will remove the reference to the custom form, so that Outlook subsequently will open new contacts in its default contact form.

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Hi all,

I'm working on an email/snailmail database in Outlook. I customized the
contact form and gave it a new name, published it, used the FormAdmin tool
to change it to the default, but now when I click on new contact it launches
a MAIL form. How do I go back and either go back to the default contact form
or have my form come up?

Thanks,

--Jim
WindowsXP sp2, Office 2003 sp2


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Old January 27th 06, 12:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Spike9458
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Default New Form Goof

Nick,

Sorry for the delay in writing back. It says IPM.Contact. I found my way to
the key in regedit and deleted the appropriate key. I guess I'm back to my
original question which is how do you change the default to a customized
form?

Thanks,

--Jim

"Nick B" wrote in message
...
: Never tried the FormAdmin tool. But if you right-click on your Contacts
: folder, what is the default folder set there?
:
: "Spike9458" wrote:
:
: Hi all,
:
: I'm working on an email/snailmail database in Outlook. I customized
the
: contact form and gave it a new name, published it, used the FormAdmin
tool
: to change it to the default, but now when I click on new contact it
launches
: a MAIL form. How do I go back and either go back to the default contact
form
: or have my form come up?
:
: Thanks,
:
: --Jim
: WindowsXP sp2, Office 2003 sp2
:
:
:


 




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