Modifying Contact Form in OL 2003

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I need to make a simple change to the contact form in OL 2003, and tried
with the technique I'd used in OL 2000... From within the contact window,
Tools | Forms | Design this form

But what I get in the "designer?" is not "This" form, but the old format
form from previous versions of Outlook (i.e. it's not the form with the new
layout used by OL 2003).

Is this a bug, or a remnant of a previous install?
 
It's by design.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Of course, I'm serious. Why not? Outlook forms are old technology and haven't seen any real updates in years. The photo control on the OUtlook 2003 default contact form is private to Outlook and not available to developers -- same as the date picker that Outlook forms use.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Of course, I'm serious. Why not? Outlook forms are old technology and
haven't seen any real updates in years. The photo control on the
OUtlook 2003 default contact form is private to Outlook and not
available to developers -- same as the date picker that Outlook forms
use.
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I see what you're getting at. I just wonder why they still call the option,
"Design THIS form?" if "This" is something else?

It would be nice to be able to start with "This" (regardless of what they
want to call it), and make simple modifications to it, rather than starting
from one of the old forms, or doing something from scratch, but alas.
 
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