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Hannah Smalltree, Editorial DirectorYou could probably use the approach you suggested and use JavaScript to open the Contact Create Form and populate certain fields with the values from the Lead record. However, this approach would be much more difficult and time-consuming, may border on the unsupported, and you may lose valuable aspects of the out-of-the-box Convert Lead functionality such as populating the Originating Lead field on the Contact. As a result, I would take a careful look at the first approach that I suggested, and if it does not meet your needs, research the second approach further.
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This was first published in March 2009