fax numbers and email address both listed in contacts

[Abbott]

I have Outlook XP on my laptop connecting to a MS Exchange
5.5 server. When I create a new email and click on
the "To" button to select a contact from one of the
contact folders in my mailbox, the users with both an
email address and a fax number are listed twice ( once for
the fax and once for the email). I used to have this in
Outlook 2000 as well, but now the contacts aren't even
labeled which is the fax and which is the email. Is there
a way to either have the (fax) or (email) displayed or to
not have the fax numbers displayed at all?

 

[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