A while back, I created a custom form for new contacts that I create
manually (it had a greater emphasis on home details rather than
business details). In the contacts list these are identifiable with a
pin and paper icon.

I recently tried to transfer all my outlook contacts into my new phone
through synchronisation, but encountered a problem with these contacts
- they won't synch into my new phone. It seems that all I have to do to
correct this is to transfer all these contacts on to 'normal' contact
forms... can this be done easily? The contacts with the normal contact
icon synched fine.

Many thanks in advance!

Can't answer you question, but can you tell me how you got the form to be THE
one for your new contacts? I've customised contacts cards but they seem to
only stay with the card i customised and I can't use the new look as the
default for all new contacts?

"oneofthesedays" wrote:

A while back, I created a custom form for new contacts that I create
manually (it had a greater emphasis on home details rather than
business details). In the contacts list these are identifiable with a
pin and paper icon.

I recently tried to transfer all my outlook contacts into my new phone
through synchronisation, but encountered a problem with these contacts
- they won't synch into my new phone. It seems that all I have to do to
correct this is to transfer all these contacts on to 'normal' contact
forms... can this be done easily? The contacts with the normal contact
icon synched fine.

Many thanks in advance!

You need to change the MessageClass on the existing items to point to the default IPM.Contact class. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm#convert for several tools and scripts to accomplish this.

--
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


"oneofthesedays" wrote in message oups.com...
A while back, I created a custom form for new contacts that I create
manually (it had a greater emphasis on home details rather than
business details). In the contacts list these are identifiable with a
pin and paper icon.

I recently tried to transfer all my outlook contacts into my new phone
through synchronisation, but encountered a problem with these contacts
- they won't synch into my new phone. It seems that all I have to do to
correct this is to transfer all these contacts on to 'normal' contact
forms... can this be done easily? The contacts with the normal contact
icon synched fine.

Many thanks in advance!

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm

--
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


"Ron S from Australia" wrote in message ...
Can't answer you question, but can you tell me how you got the form to be THE
one for your new contacts? I've customised contacts cards but they seem to
only stay with the card i customised and I can't use the new look as the
default for all new contacts?

"oneofthesedays" wrote:

A while back, I created a custom form for new contacts that I create
manually (it had a greater emphasis on home details rather than
business details). In the contacts list these are identifiable with a
pin and paper icon.

I recently tried to transfer all my outlook contacts into my new phone
through synchronisation, but encountered a problem with these contacts
- they won't synch into my new phone. It seems that all I have to do to
correct this is to transfer all these contacts on to 'normal' contact
forms... can this be done easily? The contacts with the normal contact
icon synched fine.

Many thanks in advance!

Try this easy solution VcardWizard - easy export-emport and sync
outlook contact custom forms to vcard format (cell phone, ipod, lotus
notes, etc..)
http://vcardwizard.4team.biz
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/newdefaultform.htm

--
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


"Ron S from Australia" wrote in message ...
Can't answer you question, but can you tell me how you got the form to be THE
one for your new contacts? I've customised contacts cards but they seem to
only stay with the card i customised and I can't use the new look as the
default for all new contacts?

"oneofthesedays" wrote:

A while back, I created a custom form for new contacts that I create
manually (it had a greater emphasis on home details rather than
business details). In the contacts list these are identifiable with a
pin and paper icon.

I recently tried to transfer all my outlook contacts into my new phone
through synchronisation, but encountered a problem with these contacts
- they won't synch into my new phone. It seems that all I have to do to
correct this is to transfer all these contacts on to 'normal' contact
forms... can this be done easily? The contacts with the normal contact
icon synched fine.

Many thanks in advance!