How can I rename a user-defined field that I set up in my Contacts file? And
how can I delete a user-defined field that I no longer need?

Q1: - Renaming UDF
A1: - No facility within Outlook

Q2 - Deleting UDFs
A2 - There is a short and a little longer answer to this.

Short answer: to actually delete a UDF from individual contacts that contain
a value for a specific field, you must delete each UDF on a contact by
contact basis

Expanded version: Any UDF added to a contact item will be added to the
"User-defined fields in folder" list. Deleting a UDF from this list does not
result in the fields being deleted at the contact level. There is no
facility within Outlook to bulk delete UDF fields. What will happen is
that the UDF will will no longer be accessible in any view and becomes what
we refer to as an "orphan" user-defined field. When the UDF is removed from
the folder list, the only way to know which contact has the UDF is to open
each individual contact and view the "User-defined fields in this item
list". A UDF only becomes part of a contact item when a value is actually
entered into the field (for contacts using the standard message class
IPM.Contact).

You may find ContactGenie Toolkit of interest which has several functions
specifically addressing the above scenarios enabling you to do what you
asked about- http://www.contactgenie.com/cgtoolkit.htm

The above is based on the assumption that a custom form is not in use. If it
is - just need to delete the field from the custom form, re-publish the form
and you're all done. Nothing extra is required.

Karl
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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - QuickPort/DataPort/Exporter/Toolkit/Duplicate Contact Mgr
"Contact import/export/data management tools for Outlook '2000/2007"
http://www.contactgenie.com



"travellady" wrote in message
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How can I rename a user-defined field that I set up in my Contacts file?
And
how can I delete a user-defined field that I no longer need?