OL2003 had a field on the bottom left of the contact form labeled
"Contacts." For a particular contact I would enter the spouse contact
link here, so I could easily access both contact entries when needed.

After upgrading to OL2007 the same field is not on on the "General"
page. Switching to the "All fields" page and drilling down to "All
Contact fields" I see the "Contacts" entry that lists the spouse name
(which exists as a contact in my address book) but I cannot do anything
with that field; it's read-only. Help is too general and does not go
into specific fields (or so it appears).

So my question is, how do I edit that field, and is there way to restore
the the presence of the Contacts field on the general page so that I can
once again access spouse contact easily.

If there's a better way to link two (or more) contacts in OL2007, I'd
like to know about that too.

Thanks.

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Himanshu

In Outlook 2007, the Contacts box for linking items to contacts does not appear by default. You will need to turn it on -- Tools | Options | Contact Options | Show Contact Activity Information on All Forms.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Himanshu Gohel" wrote in message ...
OL2003 had a field on the bottom left of the contact form labeled
"Contacts." For a particular contact I would enter the spouse contact
link here, so I could easily access both contact entries when needed.

After upgrading to OL2007 the same field is not on on the "General"
page. Switching to the "All fields" page and drilling down to "All
Contact fields" I see the "Contacts" entry that lists the spouse name
(which exists as a contact in my address book) but I cannot do anything
with that field; it's read-only. Help is too general and does not go
into specific fields (or so it appears).

So my question is, how do I edit that field, and is there way to restore
the the presence of the Contacts field on the general page so that I can
once again access spouse contact easily.

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
In Outlook 2007, the Contacts box for linking items to contacts does
not appear by default. You will need to turn it on -- Tools | Options
| Contact Options | Show Contact Activity Information on All Forms.

Thanks, Sue. That is exactly what I needed, even though the wording of
the option is slightly different: "Show Contact Linking on All Forms."

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Himanshu