Business Fax listed in Address book

[Anthony Litterio]

Is there any way to disable the address books from
listing Business Faxes for recipients? If I am in an E-
mail and I want to select a group of people, I have to
make sure I don't select their faxes otherwise I get an E-
mail saying they couldn't be delivered. In the office, w
are using Outlook 2002 and 2003.

Thanks
Tony

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display all
electronic addresses (both fax and e-mail). That behavior cannot be changed.
The only way to prevent the display of fax numbers is to store them in a
different field or to disguise them (e.g., precede them with an alpha
character) so that Outlook won't recognize them as phone numbers.
There are also a number of utilities available that can do this for you
automatically. Some are listed here:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/nofax.htm