Import from excel into a custom form and fields in Contacts

[John]

I have taken the default contact form and added and deleted some controls to
more represent a chain of retail stores. Main concerns were to have

Store name
Store number
Region
Buying Office
Manager
Asst.Manager
District
etc, as well as the usual items

For each new item, I added a a label and textbox, opened the textbox
properties and change the name and created a new field (eg. txtStoreName) in
design mode

I designed and created enough fields to correspond with an Excel Spreadsheet
that I receive from the store chain corp office, which has each store in on
row... each column a seperate field.

I then published the new form to the folder, say, "retail stores", which was
under the contacts folder. I set the properties of this folder to
Under the general tab - when posting to this folder use... I pick the new
form
Under the form tab - i associated the new form with the folder

One would think all was going well at this point.

Whenever I try to import the named range on the excel sheet, I get stuck at
the point where I need to map the fields. The only fields available to map
to appear to be the standard fields... None of my new fields appear.

Can someone tell me why? Please

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See my response to your post in another group.

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