2003 Text pane must be window-width & horizontal like in XP

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I recently upgraded to Office2003 from OfficeXP.
I have a lot of contacts in the Contacts folder, for which I have entered a
lot of information in tabular form in the pane for general text.

In Outlook XP (and 2000) this pane was horizontal at the bottom of the
Contact window, and the _FULL WIDTH_ of the window.

In Outlook 2k3, this text pane is only about _HALF_ the window width, on the
bottom-right side of the window. Now, what were one-line, near-full-width
data entries in the the old pane are now wrapped over 2-3 lines each.

I have been unable to change this layout in "Customise" or by any other means.

This data is now hard to read. Very annoying!

MS: Please put this pane back to how it was before Office2003, or allow
users to customise the layout (all field/pane positions & sizes, and allow
show/hide of each).



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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...d6efec6a&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
 
View | Arrange By | Current View | Customize Current View, click Other
Settings, set the Reading Pane option to "Bottom".

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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This cannot be done in the window that opens to display all the details of a
contact when the contact is "double-clicked" (the "contact editing window"?)
In the View menu of the Contact window there is no "Arrange By" entry.
There IS a "Current View" entry, but it is greyed-out (disabled).

What Ms Fiorello suggests works in the Contacts folder (which shows all the
contact names in alphabetic order) to display the contents (details) of the
hilited contact in a pane below the list.

Would it be possible to somehow send you a screen-capture JPG picture to
show what I mean (or some web location where it can be posted)?
 
Sorry, I totally misunderstood your original question. You might be able to
accomplish your goal by creating and publishing a custom contact form, then
setting it as the default for all new contacts. For information on
customizing the default Outlook forms, see
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/forms.htm.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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