Outlook 2007 Contacts

[Ken 1956]

I was trying to "fix up" my Contacts and ran into a problem. I have my son
and his wife as a contact. I want to know how I can add a spouses birthday
and email address, etc. in Contacts. Do I have to set each member of the
family up as a separate Contact?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I was trying to "fix up" my Contacts and ran into a problem. I have my son
and his wife as a contact. I want to know how I can add a spouses birthday
and email address, etc. in Contacts. Do I have to set each member of the
family up as a separate Contact?

If you want them to show up on the Calendar automatically, that's what you'll
need to do. There are no fields for spousal information other than name. You
can certainly use E-mail 2 or E-mail 3 as a spouse's mail address, but it will
still show in the Address Book as being an address for the contact and not the
spouse.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Yes, to have the individual birthdays show, you need separate contacts, but
you only need to put in one anniversary for the husband wife combination.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Ken 1956 asked:

| I was trying to "fix up" my Contacts and ran into a problem. I have
| my son and his wife as a contact. I want to know how I can add a
| spouses birthday and email address, etc. in Contacts. Do I have to
| set each member of the family up as a separate Contact?