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Found the answer - if it helps anyone else it's as simple as copying the tmp files from the AppData/FORMS/*message class* folders in the backup to a new folder on the target machine, renaming them with the .oft file extension, then opening them in Outlook - New Item > More Items > Choose Form...

Still looking for inspiration on this - anyone?

OK, but in that case the personal forms that were in the ost file (and synced with the server) before being deleted locally, would have been recreated in the new local ost created and synced with the server when the mail account was recreated on the pc - which is what I thought would happen -...

When you say 'the data file' presumably you mean the pst or ost file? If so, whilst I backed up pst files (a different mail account) I didn't back up the ost files on the assumption they would be recreated when synched with the server. If so I guess they are gone. However I do have a pst file...

Diane, as as test before I go hunting for cfg files in old backups I created a new custom form and saved it in my personal forms library - where should I expect to find the cfg file for the form? Or would there not be one without some other action - it doesn't appear in the folder you specified...

Thanks for quick reply Diane. I only have one file in each of the form folders (IPM.xxxx.xxx) within the FORMS folder and they are .tmp files. When you say the .cfg file will be in 'the office installation folders' where do you mean exactly - I may be able to extract them from an older backup set.

Had to reinstall OS and data -Win 8/Office2013 - all good up until OL2013 custom forms - naively perhaps I thought I could just copy the backed up AppData\Local\Microsoft\FORMS folder over the existing folder - wrong! Is there any way of doing this? ('instaling' the forms needs a 'cfg' file...

In OL2000 I was able to view all items in a given folder for a contact using the 'activities' tab, and I used this to see all 'bookings' (which were actually calendar items) for a contact - OL2013 doesn't have this feature, is there any way I can achieve this functionality?