Add contacts I reply to

[Carol]

In Outlook Xpress you can configure it to add contacts I reply to to my
address book. Is there a similar setting in Outlook 2003 or 2007?

 

[Gordon]

In Outlook Xpress you can configure it to add contacts I reply to to my
address book. Is there a similar setting in Outlook 2003 or 2007?

No. There are third-party addins that will do this....

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

In Outlook Xpress you can configure it to add contacts I reply to to my
address book. Is there a similar setting in Outlook 2003 or 2007?

See this: http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/addauto.asp

 

[Rosemary]

but why in this day and age should one have to go for another add-in for such
a simple task. I run Windows Vista with Office Home and Student 2007. I have
never use Office Outlook and am finding itvery user unfriendly. Now that I
want to try and get familiar with it, I am asked to activate my product code.
When i enter the code the error message is 'wrong code'. Please help

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

but why in this day and age should one have to go for another add-in for
such
a simple task.

I think it should be difficult to make a mail program automatically add people
to whom you reply to the Contacts folder. Besides, Outlook has the
autcompletion cache which does remember the people to whom you send messages.
That helps a lot in this situation and if you want someone added to Contacts,
it's fairly easy to right-click their address and choose Add to Contacts.

I run Windows Vista with Office Home and Student 2007. I have
never use Office Outlook and am finding itvery user unfriendly.

Well, it was intended for a corporate environment, but it is a complex
program. Since Office Home and Student 2007 doesn't contain Outlook, you must
have purchased it separately.

Now that I
want to try and get familiar with it, I am asked to activate my product
code.
When i enter the code the error message is 'wrong code'. Please help

You're not using the correct product key, is my guess. Are you using a
product key specifically for stand-alone Outlook according to the document
containing the key?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Because, while it is a simple task, it's also highly annoying - an early
version of Outlook had the option and people forgot they enabled it, then
wondered why their contacts folder was filled with all these names and
addresses.

Because many people use Outlook 2003/2007 nickname cache as an address book,
Outlook 2010 has the ability to save the people you reply to, to the
Suggested Contacts folder. You'll need to move the contacts you want to keep
to your default contacts folders. This keeps them from cluttering up your
contacts and protects users from a loss of addresses due to a corrupt
nickname cache.


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