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Send vCard with Reply.  There has to be a better way.

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Jim McGovern - 10 Jun 2005 18:14 GMT
Two problems:
1)  Is there a good way to include a contact's vCard in an email Reply?
I've tried simply dragging and dropping the vCard from my Contacts into the
Reply email, but that doesn't work.   I've tried using the Insert File and
looking for *.vcf files on my hard drive, but that doesn't work.  Using the
Forward as vCard from my Contacts doesn't answer the question, since I'm
trying to include the vCard in an existing email to which I'm replying.  The
only thing I've found that DOES work is a real kludge (Opening the desired
contact and doing a Save As to my desktop and then dragging that into the
open email -- it works, but it ain't pretty, and it is compounded by the next
problem)

2)  How to strip out and NOT send the confidential stuff in the Notes
section of the vCard?
I know that I could save the contact as a vCard and then edit it manually
with a text editor to strip out the Notes, but, again, surely there is a
better way.  For example, perhaps a custom vCard Save As Without Notes macro?
Or, even better, an Outlook Options/Preference setting.

Thanks very much for any help.  And, for what it is worth, I think the
adoption rate of vCards would be much higher if these minor, real world
frustrations could be solved.  In my experience, most people avoid using
vCards for these types of reasons.

Jim
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 01 Jul 2005 18:27 GMT
1) Include the vCard in your reply signature.

2) There is no better way than using Notepad to edit the .vcf file that you saved for your signature.

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> Two problems:
> 1)  Is there a good way to include a contact's vCard in an email Reply?
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> Jim
 
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