Changing phone number columns for multiple contacts

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Bluedenture

I How do I move the phone numbers of multiple contacts from the "Business
Phone" column to the "Mobile Phone" column? I curently have them in "Phone
List" view.
 
B

Bluedenture

Thank you Diane. Is there no way to do this within Outlook itself?

Diane Poremsky said:
the easiest is to export to excel and move them there.

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Bluedenture said:
I How do I move the phone numbers of multiple contacts from the "Business
Phone" column to the "Mobile Phone" column? I curently have them in "Phone
List" view.
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

Not automatically. If you use in-cell editing you can copy and paste the
numbers between fields in table view (ie, By category or similar).

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Bluedenture said:
Thank you Diane. Is there no way to do this within Outlook itself?

Diane Poremsky said:
the easiest is to export to excel and move them there.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Bluedenture said:
I How do I move the phone numbers of multiple contacts from the
"Business
Phone" column to the "Mobile Phone" column? I curently have them in
"Phone
List" view.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
B

Bluedenture

Once again, ta much! :) Guess the Excel way's a winner then...

Diane Poremsky said:
Not automatically. If you use in-cell editing you can copy and paste the
numbers between fields in table view (ie, By category or similar).

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Bluedenture said:
Thank you Diane. Is there no way to do this within Outlook itself?

Diane Poremsky said:
the easiest is to export to excel and move them there.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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I How do I move the phone numbers of multiple contacts from the
"Business
Phone" column to the "Mobile Phone" column? I curently have them in
"Phone
List" view.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 

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