Thank you for your comment – glad you found the information useful! Misty

glad it was helpful – thank you for your comment! Misty

My pleasure, Ryan – glad we could help! Misty

So in the end, I’ve decided to recommend to my client to create a new table view and add the mileage field to that. So populating the field is a two step process (create appointment, switch to table view to add the mileage data) but this is acceptable compared to hosing the date dropdown controls.
I will document my ‘workaround’ and post a link for others in case anyone wants to know. Also I have tried with both Outlook 2010 and 2007 and it works with both versions.

Michael, just read the post in your link – I didn’t realize that you are a developer so you have a few extra tools at your disposal. Even so, the solution you outlined is pretty much what I do. I enter my appointments using the regular Outlook appointment form and then once a week I switch to my mileage view and input mileage for all appointments during the week at the same time. That way it isn’t really a 2 step process, its just two different processes all together. Thanks for your follow up comment and please post links to any other follow up posts on your blog! Misty

Thanks for your comment, Michael! Assuming that by “main appointment view” you mean the appointment inspector window that opens when you double click on the appointment there is no easy way that I am aware of to get the mileage field to appear in the appointment view. You could create a custom appointment form that includes the mileage view, but since the main page of the form is not editable that would involve recreating several fields on the appointment page that are not easily reproduced. Another option would be to customize your appointment form by making the All Fields tab visible which would allow you to view the mileage field when “All Appointment Fields” is selected in the “select from” drop list on the All Fields tab.

If my assumption regarding the meaning of “mail appointment view” is incorrect, please let me know and I’ll provide another solution. Also, if anyone else has a different solution for Michael’s question, please post another comment. Thanks again for your comment, Michael, and I’m sorry I didn’t have an easier solution for you. Misty

My pleasure – glad it was helpful to you! Misty