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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
It sounds like your contact e-mail addresses are not resolved.
Try this - open your contact folder, select all and drag to your inbox.
This should open a new message with all of your contacts in the TO: field.
Click in the TO: field and select all, then press Ctrl+K to resolve all of
the addresses. Delete the mail without saving.
Now try again to see if you get your field completed when pressing the TO:
radio button.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, jackiel asked:
| Dear All,
|
| I've read the thread of messages and it seems a shame that any
| possibility of resolving what seems to be a common problem is
| jepodised with unhelpful comments aimed at the one person who may be
| able to help.
|
| I have experienced a similar problem. I have just purchased a new
| laptop with Vista and successfully did an Activesync with my PDA so
| it appears I have all my contacts in the Contacts section of Outlook
| 2007. However, if I use the "To" button when sending a new e-mail and
| select a contact, the e-mail will not send. It works fine if I type
| the e-mail address in longhand.
|
| Anyone know if there is a simple way of getting around this? Oh and
| please, I do not understand most computer jargon so if there's a way
| of telling me in simple everyday language that would be great!
|
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| The "industry standard?" How do you transfer your Word data to a new
|| installation? Do you import it?
|| I suspect not.
|| Pretty amusing that you think MVP's would lose anything over this.
|| We are not employees. We are just here to keep fellow users from
|| making mistakes, like thinking importing is the correct way to
|| transfer data. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| It is totally unacceptable not to be able to import info into
||| Outlook Contacts Folder - the architecture is dreadfully broken.
||| Importing and Exporting are industry ways of doing things - if you
||| can't run your contact
||| management software on a proper database and allow import and
||| export then I
||| suggest that with the proliferation of mobile devices and open
||| source office
||| solutions Microsoft will lose a bunch of paying customers and
||| employees will
||| lose their MVP positions.
|||
||| Angela Hey
|||
||| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| First, verify that you are even using Outlook. It seems as if you
|||| are not since Outlook does not even use an address book. If you
|||| are using Outlook,
|||| this would be the worst way to transfer data because it would lose
|||| information and invalidate all your email addresses. The correct
|||| methods for
|||| transferring Outlook data are posted here every day.
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| After transfuring my data from old XP computer to new Vista
||||| Computer with
||||| belkin cable and laplink PC sync software many of my address book
||||| address's
||||| won't allow me to send e-mail (invalid entryid was passed in) in
||||| message
||||| given. All of my contacts are intact. How do I rectify my address
||||| book problem? Have not been able to overwrite address book names
||||| from contacts.
||||| I
||||| am using outlook for e-mail not outlook express. Puchased windows
||||| 2007 for
||||| bussiness version.
Try this - open your contact folder, select all and drag to your inbox.
This should open a new message with all of your contacts in the TO: field.
Click in the TO: field and select all, then press Ctrl+K to resolve all of
the addresses. Delete the mail without saving.
Now try again to see if you get your field completed when pressing the TO:
radio button.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, jackiel asked:
| Dear All,
|
| I've read the thread of messages and it seems a shame that any
| possibility of resolving what seems to be a common problem is
| jepodised with unhelpful comments aimed at the one person who may be
| able to help.
|
| I have experienced a similar problem. I have just purchased a new
| laptop with Vista and successfully did an Activesync with my PDA so
| it appears I have all my contacts in the Contacts section of Outlook
| 2007. However, if I use the "To" button when sending a new e-mail and
| select a contact, the e-mail will not send. It works fine if I type
| the e-mail address in longhand.
|
| Anyone know if there is a simple way of getting around this? Oh and
| please, I do not understand most computer jargon so if there's a way
| of telling me in simple everyday language that would be great!
|
|
| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| The "industry standard?" How do you transfer your Word data to a new
|| installation? Do you import it?
|| I suspect not.
|| Pretty amusing that you think MVP's would lose anything over this.
|| We are not employees. We are just here to keep fellow users from
|| making mistakes, like thinking importing is the correct way to
|| transfer data. --
|| Russ Valentine
|| [MVP-Outlook]
|| ||| It is totally unacceptable not to be able to import info into
||| Outlook Contacts Folder - the architecture is dreadfully broken.
||| Importing and Exporting are industry ways of doing things - if you
||| can't run your contact
||| management software on a proper database and allow import and
||| export then I
||| suggest that with the proliferation of mobile devices and open
||| source office
||| solutions Microsoft will lose a bunch of paying customers and
||| employees will
||| lose their MVP positions.
|||
||| Angela Hey
|||
||| "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| First, verify that you are even using Outlook. It seems as if you
|||| are not since Outlook does not even use an address book. If you
|||| are using Outlook,
|||| this would be the worst way to transfer data because it would lose
|||| information and invalidate all your email addresses. The correct
|||| methods for
|||| transferring Outlook data are posted here every day.
|||| --
|||| Russ Valentine
|||| [MVP-Outlook]
|||| ||||| After transfuring my data from old XP computer to new Vista
||||| Computer with
||||| belkin cable and laplink PC sync software many of my address book
||||| address's
||||| won't allow me to send e-mail (invalid entryid was passed in) in
||||| message
||||| given. All of my contacts are intact. How do I rectify my address
||||| book problem? Have not been able to overwrite address book names
||||| from contacts.
||||| I
||||| am using outlook for e-mail not outlook express. Puchased windows
||||| 2007 for
||||| bussiness version.