Alias for contacts in Outlook - e.g. Bill and William

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jim - 25 Oct 2005 04:03 GMT

It would be great to find a contact when creating an e-mail with more than
one name - e.g. William, as well as Bill or Jim as well as James. If I put
in two contacts, then I have to update all the information for two and risk
not updating both.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 25 Oct 2005 07:00 GMT

Outlook rightly considers Bill and William as separate entities - many
father/son combinations like this exist.

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After furious head scratching, jim asked:

| It would be great to find a contact when creating an e-mail with more
| than one name - e.g. William, as well as Bill or Jim as well as
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| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=9b0bfc10-faf9-4
b58-8cec-56c9a933706c&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

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Judy Gleeson MVP - Outlook - 25 Oct 2005 07:10 GMT

there is a nickname field

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> Outlook rightly considers Bill and William as separate entities - many
> father/son combinations like this exist.
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> | button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
> | Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=9b0bfc10-fa
f9-4b58-8cec-56c9a933706c&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 25 Oct 2005 11:38 GMT

But unfortunately the nickname field is excluded from any searches except
Advanced Find...

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> there is a nickname field
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> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=9b0bfc10-fa
> f9-4b58-8cec-56c9a933706c&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts

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