Contact Received as an Attachment won't save to Contacts folder

[Amanda George]

I have Outlook 2000 installed as part of the Office 2000 Professional Suite
on my laptop. When I receive a contact as an attachment, I am unable to save
the contact directly to my contacts folder. I open the mail message, open
the contact, click Save and Close, and the contact doesn't appear in my main
Contacts list. Also, when I open the contact from the email, make changes to
the contact and then save, the saved changes save in the original contact
attachment. Is this a problem that has been fixed in an Outlook or Office
2000 service pack? I don't see the problem occuring on Outlook 2002. Is my
best bet to upgrade to Outlook 2002? Please advise, thank you.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, it's just the way that kind of embedded item works. Either drag it to
your Contacts folder or open it and use the File | Copy to Folder command.

 

[Amanda George]

Thanks, Sue. It must only be an issue with Outlook 2000 though.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

More likely, the attached contacts you're seeing in Outlook 2002 are vCard
..vcf files, not embedded Outlook contacts items. They behave differently.

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