Milly Staples said:
It is the default behavior - anytime anything is accessed (opened, edited,
moved, etc.) it is modified. The fact that you did not notice this
before
has no bearing on the fact that is happens.
The modified date has no bearing with Contacts since the most important
thing about modified dates is archiving. As contacts don't archive, the
issue is moot for most everyone.
Sorry to insist but I'm sure you are wrong.
The proof that you're wrong is that I often use a sorting of the contacts by
modified date. With this sorted contacts view, the contacts that I didn't
altered are on top of the list, and the contact that I recently altered are
on the bottom of the list.
Very often, I double click on an old contact to check its content. Then if I
close it without modifying anything, the contact will stay on top of the
list. If I change something in one of the contact's fields, the contact will
jump to the bottom of the list.
The behavior I have now, since one week , si that if I double click a
contact, it will jump immediatly to the bottom of the list. If I go to the
properties of the contact, I can see its modifed date is set to the time and
date when I double clicked on the contact.
I'm an Outlook user since 10 years and use this kind of sorted view since
about 10 years. If this thing happens all the time, in every case, I SHOULD
have noticed it before. But I noticed it first only one week ago. And since
then, my sorting by modified date became unusable (after 10 years of using
it).
I am not sure by what you mean when you say "The modified date has no
bearing with Contacts since the most important thing about modified dates is
archiving". Even if a contact does not get archived, it has a modified date
that can be altered.
Best regards,
Gz
