1) There is an Add button in the File | Data File Management dialog. Add your old .pst file and make it the default. Restart Outlook. Once you do that, all your old forms and data will be available. You can move any items you've created or modified since the move over into your old .pst file and close the new one.

2) If the contacts are using the desired form, then what's the real issue? Your original post said the custom forms aren't there.

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"jeffrey" wrote in message t...
add info: to clarify, when i did the "import" it asked if i wanted to add
duplicates, overwrite, etc. if this was the wrong thing to do, darn, i
thought that i was being so good, figuring it out this way.

so, at this point, for next time, (there will be a next time), 1. how do i
"add" rather than 'import".
2. is there a way to rectify the situation, without wiping out my now
changed .pst (some changes to contacts, added email, calendar). perhaps the
simplest thing is to open a contact (which is using the desired custom
form), do "design this form" , delete the data from the fields, and publish
the empty form under the old name? then do a contact form conversion so that
they all are using the properly named form?

jeffrey

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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If you published the forms to your Personal Forms library, then you never
should have imported the .pst file. Instead, you should have created a new
Outlook profile, add that old .pst file to it, and made it the default store
for that profile. If you do that, all your data, forms, custom views, rules,
etc. will be available.

"jeffrey" wrote in message
t...
i have a number of custom forms that was using in OL03. i have reinstalled
OL03 on a new computer. i imported the .pst file into the existing, new,
personal folder. all the contacts and email are there. but not the custom
forms.

i have access to the old drive/files, but cann't run the old install of
outlook. what files do i need, where to find them, and how to get the new
OL03 to recognize them?

thanks,
jeffrey