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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / October 2005Aliases for Contacts when typing a to message to them in mail? e.g Bill or William.
I have some contacts which I'd love to be able to send with either a Bill or William or Jim or James etc, If I do an alt K of course, it only has one item listed so I have to make sure I know what it is in my contacts. I don't want to make a second contact so I don't have to remember to update both when something changes. If there is an alias or some other feature for a contact I would appreciate the info. Thanks Post your Outlook version. State by which method you want to enter recipients: autocompletion, autoresolution, select from Contacts, select from Address Book, etc.  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I have some contacts which I'd love to be able to send with either a Bill >or William or Jim or James etc, If I do an alt K of course, it only has [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Thanks Outlook 2003 SP2. I would like to be able to press alt-k to find their contact by both william and bill but without putting "william bill jones" in their name or anything like that. I would also like to have them in my cache look up. I keep all my contacts in my contacts. > Post your Outlook version. > State by which method you want to enter recipients: autocompletion, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> >> Thanks No such option. If you want to use autoresolution, either the first or last name field must contain the name on which you want to search. For more advanced searches, use your Contacts Folder. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Outlook 2003 SP2. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>> >>> Thanks Thanks - If you have the link to the MS outlook feature request - I'll add this. > No such option. If you want to use autoresolution, either the first or > last name field must contain the name on which you want to search. For [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>>> >>>> Thanks Good idea. I'd be willing to bet that this is an area that will get attention in upcoming versions. Searching within the Address Book is overdue for some improvements, and these are frequent requests. The process to make suggestions to Microsoft has changed. To submit product or service suggestions to Microsoft: 1. Within the specific Microsoft Office product, navigate to the Help menu. 2. Click the "Contact Us" option. 3. You can then use the "Make a Suggestion" link on the webpage to submit any suggestion. This posts the suggestion to the "Microsoft Community". The Microsoft Community is a public forum where you can submit suggestions for Microsoft products and see suggestions that others have made. Community participants vote for suggestions, and Microsoft uses the votes to help prioritize features in upcoming versions. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Thanks - If you have the link to the MS outlook feature request - I'll add > this. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Thanks Thanks - I've posted a suggestion. Hopefully more people will contact MS about that it would be nice if they did some more work on outlook. The other big things I'd love - Opening two profiles at the same time! Doing a search through my e-mails and automatically have it display both to and from - I hate searching my sent items and having to manually choose fields and have to select to - I'm pretty sure if it is in my sent items I sent it - what the heck is wrong with MS - how many more versions before they correct that one!! > Good idea. I'd be willing to bet that this is an area that will get > attention in upcoming versions. Searching within the Address Book is [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks Why can't you just customize your view to display the fields you want? I suspect Outlook is capable of more than you've discovered. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Thanks - I've posted a suggestion. Hopefully more people will contact MS > about that it would be nice if they did some more work on outlook. The [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks You can customize your view after a search, I don't know of a way to get it to STICK before a search so I don't have to modify it every time I close outlook and go back in and search. > Why can't you just customize your view to display the fields you want? > I suspect Outlook is capable of more than you've discovered. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks BTW - I asked an engineer this at the last big show and he said it couldn't do that - in a tone as if to say - why would anyone want that. > Why can't you just customize your view to display the fields you want? > I suspect Outlook is capable of more than you've discovered. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks You haven't made it very clear what you are trying to do. I was talking about customizing the view of your Sent Items Folder to display the fields you want. That will certainly persist. You must be talking about something else. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > BTW - I asked an engineer this at the last big show and he said it > couldn't do that - in a tone as if to say - why would anyone want that. [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks When I do a SEARCH of my mailbox for e-mails - I want it to know I searched in my sent e-mails and always show the TO field. > You haven't made it very clear what you are trying to do. I was talking > about customizing the view of your Sent Items Folder to display the fields [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks |
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