Use a custom view to enter the gift in this field for each contact as you receive a gift during the holiday season. Create a New View. Click here . Start Outlook and display your Contacts folder. Click on the View menu, and select the Define Views menu item from the Current View submenu to display a list of your current views for this folder.
Outlook generates a simple table view with default fields.
Click on the Fields button to display the available contact fields, and click on the New button to create a field called Gifts Received. Enter a few gifts next to some of the contacts for testing purposes, and you're ready to start on the Visual Basic procedures. Use the New Gift View. Click here . You can choose the application you want to use to host your Visual Basic code because VB is built into so many applications.