Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Adding User-Defined Fields

There are times when the types of data that you need to share, gather, or track with forms exceed the Outlook 2007 default field definitions. You might want to have your contact form display the hire date and review date, for example, but these fields don’t exist in the Outlook 2007 field list.

You can define new fields that contain information that is relevant to your use of Outlook 2007. These user-defined fields can be bound to a control in the same way that you bind a preexisting field to controls in Outlook 2007 forms.

When you want to implement a new field in a form, start by opening the Design Form dialog box (choose Tools, Form, Design A Form). To create a new form field, you can either open the Field Chooser and ...