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Gordon J. Rattray - 29 Feb 2008 03:04 GMT

Hi there,

I need to extract email addresses as someone forwarded an email to me, but
there's about 100 email addresses that are highlighted in blue below
"forwarded from John Doe...."

If I click on any of those email addresses, it will bring out the full name
and email address... copying and pasting doesn't not work...it just copies
and pastes the name only.

How can I extract these email addresses?

Thanks,

Gordon

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Brian Tillman - 29 Feb 2008 21:56 GMT

> I need to extract email addresses as someone forwarded an email to
> me, but there's about 100 email addresses that are highlighted in
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> How can I extract these email addresses?

With a third-party tool or by copying and pasting one at a time from the
E-mail Properties dialogue that you get when you double-click an address.

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Amorphous Zingaro - 10 Mar 2008 10:17 GMT

Can you please inform us which third-party tools can accomplish this?

I still think this shouldn't require third-party tools, it is very
frustrating to lose email addresses simply because they aren't archived
properly, because only the name is kept and not the email address. I do
think it is a bug in Outlook and should be fixed. I've been struggling for
an answer to this bug for over a year and finally found others that have
experienced the same problem, but I still have no solution.

Marco Zingaro

> > I need to extract email addresses as someone forwarded an email to
> > me, but there's about 100 email addresses that are highlighted in
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> With a third-party tool or by copying and pasting one at a time from the
> E-mail Properties dialogue that you get when you double-click an address.

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Brian Tillman - 11 Mar 2008 14:06 GMT

> Can you please inform us which third-party tools can accomplish this?

>http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Boutlook+-express+%2Bscan+%2Bmessages+%2Bextrac
t+%2Bcontacts+%2Badd>

> I still think this shouldn't require third-party tools, it is very
> frustrating to lose email addresses simply because they aren't
> archived properly, because only the name is kept and not the email
> address.

The address is in the sender field. You merely need to right-click the
sender and choose Add to Contacts. This should never be an automatic
action, in my opinion.

> I do think it is a bug in Outlook and should be fixed.

Bugs are unintended effects. This is not a bug. It may be a deficiency, in
your opinion, but the program is not doing something wrong.

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Amorphous Zingaro - 12 Mar 2008 23:49 GMT

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your reply and interest in this issue.

I agree with you, I don't think adding these as contacts should be
automated. The "bug" in my opinion is the way Outlook handles the clipboard
(or could be with the clipboard directly, I'm not sure where the fault lies).
What I mean is, when you see a list of of email addresses in the form "Name
<address>", when you copy and paste it pastes only the names. I don't want
to add all these email addresses as contacts; I simply want to be able to
copy and paste them in a word document, notepad, or even have them appear in
a forward!

Have you seen the post I addressed to you at:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook/browse_thread/thread/0f6
b31077da5be1b/65f6f5e95f9bddbc

Hope this clears things up and look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Cheers,
Marco Zingaro

> > Can you please inform us which third-party tools can accomplish this?
>
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> Bugs are unintended effects. This is not a bug. It may be a deficiency, in
> your opinion, but the program is not doing something wrong.

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Brian Tillman - 13 Mar 2008 14:33 GMT

> I agree with you, I don't think adding these as contacts should be
> automated. The "bug" in my opinion is the way Outlook handles the
> clipboard (or could be with the clipboard directly, I'm not sure
> where the fault lies). What I mean is, when you see a list of of
> email addresses in the form "Name <address>", when you copy and paste
> it pastes only the names.

The clipboard can't pull out the properties of the items in the recipient
fields, it can pull only the text shown to you, which corresponds to the
values each of those people use for their accounts' display name or what the
sender uses for the display names of the included recipients. Still, while
it may be a deficiency, it's not a bug, since it is correct behavior for the
copy/paste function. It's just not what YOU want it to do. I can't deny it
would be handy, however.

> Have you seen the post I addressed to you at:
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook/...

I think it would be a good idea for you to start your own threads instead of
hijacking others'.

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