Help Using the vCard Feature

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I'm using Outlook 2003. I have tried to put a copy of a vCard with my
contact info on my desktop. I would then use this as an attachment to
outgoing emails when someone wants my full contact information as
opposed to the info in my normal signature block. The problem I have
is that when I export the vCard, the layout I designed for it in my
Contacts folder reverts back to a standard layout instead of the way I
organized it. As an example, I have a toll free number which I show as
Business 2 in lieu of the Home phone field. It stays that
way within the Contacts forder bur reverts to a blank Home field when I

copy it to my desktop. Is their a way to fix this? I would like to
personalize the vCard without it effecting the Address Book Contact
record so that when I make changes to the vCard and click on Save and
Close, it saves the changes to the vCard only. Currently it will only
let me save back to my Contacts folder. Thanks for any help.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There's nothing to fix. The .vcf file is just a text file. You can open it in Notepad to see what it contains. No layout information is involved, nor can there be since vCard is a specification for contact data interchange across multiple applications.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers