I have a lot of missing data in my contact records - especially which
categories the contact should be in. Is there a way to email the contact
form including the category list to all my contacts (with a request to
fill-in the missing data) and have them email back the form that could be
used to automatically update their contact record.

No, that's not a practical solution for the following reasons:

-- The recipients may not have Outlook.

-- Even if they do have Outlook, sending them a specific list of categories would require a custom form.

-- Sending a custom form item to someone would require a lot of attention to detail on your part to make sure that nothing prevents the message from getting there in rich-text format and detail on their part to forward back the updated item.

-- The category list is *your* category list. How would the other person know where they fit into your classification scheme?

-- The recipient may press Delete and not bother to respond, having no vested interest in spending their time to update your records.

-- You'd still have to devise some automatic updating routine if you don't want to completely replace the old records.

--
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


"pj" wrote in message ...
I have a lot of missing data in my contact records - especially which
categories the contact should be in. Is there a way to email the contact
form including the category list to all my contacts (with a request to
fill-in the missing data) and have them email back the form that could be
used to automatically update their contact record.