Contacts acting a little funny.

[Derek Rose]

Ok, will do my best to explain.

Say we have a contact, let's call him Ken Poppe. In his
contact information he has an e-mail address and a fax
number listed under his contact profile. If I want to
send an e-mail to Ken, I create a new message, put "poppe,
ken" or "ken poppe" (it doesn't matter which one) in the
to field, hit tab, and then I get the red squiggly line
indicating it wasn't recognized. Ok, so I click on "check
names" and it makes me choose between the fax number and
the email address. Why doesn't it default to the email
address....?

 

[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

 

[Guest]

that's a good answer, and that makes sense. I have a
question, this feature about validating e-mails and fax
numbers, did outlook behave the same way in OFFICE 2000?
I just upgraded a machine from windows 2000 with office
2000 to Windows XP and Office XP, and I don't think I had
this problem before but I can't seem to remember...? At
the same time, would this be the same with Office 2003?

-----Original Message-----
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



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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Ok, will do my best to explain.

Say we have a contact, let's call him Ken Poppe. In his
contact information he has an e-mail address and a fax
number listed under his contact profile. If I want to
send an e-mail to Ken, I create a new message, put "poppe,
ken" or "ken poppe" (it doesn't matter which one) in the
to field, hit tab, and then I get the red squiggly line
indicating it wasn't recognized. Ok, so I click on "check
names" and it makes me choose between the fax number and
the email address. Why doesn't it default to the email
address....?

.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The Outlook Address Book has always done this and still does. Only Outlook
98/2000 in IMO mode did not because they did not use the Outlook Address
Book.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

that's a good answer, and that makes sense. I have a
question, this feature about validating e-mails and fax
numbers, did outlook behave the same way in OFFICE 2000?
I just upgraded a machine from windows 2000 with office
2000 to Windows XP and Office XP, and I don't think I had
this problem before but I can't seem to remember...? At
the same time, would this be the same with Office 2003?

-----Original Message-----
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



--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Ok, will do my best to explain.

Say we have a contact, let's call him Ken Poppe. In his
contact information he has an e-mail address and a fax
number listed under his contact profile. If I want to
send an e-mail to Ken, I create a new message, put "poppe,
ken" or "ken poppe" (it doesn't matter which one) in the
to field, hit tab, and then I get the red squiggly line
indicating it wasn't recognized. Ok, so I click on "check
names" and it makes me choose between the fax number and
the email address. Why doesn't it default to the email
address....?

.