J
Jim McGowan
Hello all.
I use Office 2003 Professional at home for mostly personal usage. No
Exchange server involved at all.
After receiving a phone call from my brother notifying me of a birthday
party, as usual I entered it in my Outlook calendar while he was telling me
about it. He asked me to notify a number of other family members, so I
immediately clicked "Invite Attendees", then "To:", and started selecting
them from the resulting dialog. Figured I'd let my wife know, too; she was
at work at the time.
However when I searched for her Contact, it couldn't be found. I scrolled
the entire list - approximately 500 contacts. With multiple email addresses
for many of them, the list is probably about 1,500 strong. (I hate
scrolling...).
No dice. Her contact information simply doesn't exist as far as the "To:"
selection dialog is concerned.
I double checked my Contacts folder to make sure that her contact is listed
there - it is. I tried the Find... facility in Contacts, Ctrl+E, and
searched using her first name, then just her last name, and then just a
small partial of her work email address - all of these found her without a
hiccup. Same with the Advanced Find: Ctrl+Shft+F.
I reviewed her card to make certain that I don't have it marked as "Private"
or anything else unusual that could possibly make the contact become not
visible to certain dialogs. There doesn't appear to be anything different
to other listed contacts.
I use the Contacts folder and not the Outlook Address Book in all areas of
Outlook, and the "To:" selection dialog is also set to use "Contacts" in the
combo box near the top right.
It appears that most of the rest of my contacts show in that dialog, though
unless I search through all of them, I can't be certain.
I am using the Main (default) Contacts folder for all of these operations.
There are others, but hers is definitrly in the main folder.
I'm far from an advanced Outlook user, so I am about out of ideas! By the
time anyone responds, she'll be home and I can tell her in person! No need
to send it via the Meeting Invitation - I just decided to include her work
address for the heck of it. But now I'm concerned that either my
setup/options are somehow incorrect, or something else is out of whack.
I ran the PST Scan tool to repair the PST just in case. Results are still
the same. Also, the same "To:" dialog can't find her contact info for Mail
either. Stands to reason, as it's the same dialog, but I thought I'd mention
it anyway.
Environment: HP Pavilion M270N Desktop w/Pentium 2.8 GHz and 1.5 GB DDR RAM,
running Windows Media Center Edition (2004) over XP Pro w/SP2. All MS
Updates are current.
Also, Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition (SP2 is installed) with
Business Contacts NOT in use - I never set it up. Also, all MS Office
updates are current.
Any help and/or advice is greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
I use Office 2003 Professional at home for mostly personal usage. No
Exchange server involved at all.
After receiving a phone call from my brother notifying me of a birthday
party, as usual I entered it in my Outlook calendar while he was telling me
about it. He asked me to notify a number of other family members, so I
immediately clicked "Invite Attendees", then "To:", and started selecting
them from the resulting dialog. Figured I'd let my wife know, too; she was
at work at the time.
However when I searched for her Contact, it couldn't be found. I scrolled
the entire list - approximately 500 contacts. With multiple email addresses
for many of them, the list is probably about 1,500 strong. (I hate
scrolling...).
No dice. Her contact information simply doesn't exist as far as the "To:"
selection dialog is concerned.
I double checked my Contacts folder to make sure that her contact is listed
there - it is. I tried the Find... facility in Contacts, Ctrl+E, and
searched using her first name, then just her last name, and then just a
small partial of her work email address - all of these found her without a
hiccup. Same with the Advanced Find: Ctrl+Shft+F.
I reviewed her card to make certain that I don't have it marked as "Private"
or anything else unusual that could possibly make the contact become not
visible to certain dialogs. There doesn't appear to be anything different
to other listed contacts.
I use the Contacts folder and not the Outlook Address Book in all areas of
Outlook, and the "To:" selection dialog is also set to use "Contacts" in the
combo box near the top right.
It appears that most of the rest of my contacts show in that dialog, though
unless I search through all of them, I can't be certain.
I am using the Main (default) Contacts folder for all of these operations.
There are others, but hers is definitrly in the main folder.
I'm far from an advanced Outlook user, so I am about out of ideas! By the
time anyone responds, she'll be home and I can tell her in person! No need
to send it via the Meeting Invitation - I just decided to include her work
address for the heck of it. But now I'm concerned that either my
setup/options are somehow incorrect, or something else is out of whack.
I ran the PST Scan tool to repair the PST just in case. Results are still
the same. Also, the same "To:" dialog can't find her contact info for Mail
either. Stands to reason, as it's the same dialog, but I thought I'd mention
it anyway.
Environment: HP Pavilion M270N Desktop w/Pentium 2.8 GHz and 1.5 GB DDR RAM,
running Windows Media Center Edition (2004) over XP Pro w/SP2. All MS
Updates are current.
Also, Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition (SP2 is installed) with
Business Contacts NOT in use - I never set it up. Also, all MS Office
updates are current.
Any help and/or advice is greatly appreciated!
Thanks.