Form displayed is different from form edited

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I am editing contact forms and on one of them when I "Design This Form" a different form opens. I believe the contact form is the default, IPM:Contact

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When opened it looks like this:
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Note the Category colored bands (nice), the photo, business card on RHS, order of fields on the LHS.



Then I hit Developer, Design This Form and get this:
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Note no Category bars, no photo, no business card, different format and order of fields on the LHS...it's a different form. The other tabs aren't it either.

What am I missing, or is something broken?
Many thanks indeed
Quentin
 
That is normal for the contacts form - you'll also lose all of the eye candy if you edit the general page. The contact photo, business card, and categories control can be added to a custom form - so you really only lose the better looking buttons.
 
So it takes out all the eye candy when you edit, but you can add it back in? Very odd. That leaves me with two questions:
1) Why does the order and layout of the surviving fields change as well?
2) How do I re-insert Category colored bands, or is that not possible? I can't find the field or control for that.
Many thanks indeed
Quentin
 
Well, to be fair, when you add it back in, it's not going to look the same. It'll still be the old, gray form (although you can adjust the color) and not everything can be added - like the map button.

Under Custom Controls (right click on Control Toolbox), look for Microsoft Outlook - business card, contact photo, and categories are there. The category control add the strip - if you don't add it, you can still add categories, but they will be in the old style list at the bottom.

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