Brian,
No need to get nasty. Maybe my point wasn't clear to you. If it wasn't
clear to Soupygal I better take a little time here to explain it better. I
believe that the object of the game isn't just to get the spouse's name into
the database of contacts. That is easy and there are alot of different ways
to do it.

The object of creating a database in any program isn't just to store
information in the database. The true utility of such records is the use to
which that information is put. Therefore, Soupygal either wants to view the
information a different way than Outlook gives her as a default. Or she
needs to pull that information and put it into documents for mailing,
emailing, easy retrieval/lookup,

The reaching best solution for Soupygal is finding out what she wants to do
with the data. What field to use is a minor consideration.

One of the solutions I could have said was to modify the form used to
display the record to show both spouses' names. That takes no more than a
minute to do and then every record you look at will have both spouses names
up front a very convenient to view. But is merely viewing the record enough
for what Soupygal needs. I don't know and that is why asked the question
that I did rather than just throwing solutions at her.

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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LaManchaDQ wrote:

What is it that you are trying to accomplish within Outlook that you
can't seem to do?

That was pretty well explained in the original poster's initial message,
in my opinion. Why don't you read it?
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Brian Tillman