How do you display names instead of email addresses on emails?

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V Fair - 22 Dec 2005 01:21 GMT

My contacts are displaying email addresses instaed of the names from my
contact list. How do I display my contacts names instead of there email
addresses. This didn't start happening until I upgraded my outlook when I
installed ActiveSync 4.0 for my Dell Axim X51v.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 22 Dec 2005 02:54 GMT

Displaying them where? Outlook will use whatever is stored in the "Display
As" field.

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Russ Valentine
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> My contacts are displaying email addresses instaed of the names from my
> contact list. How do I display my contacts names instead of there email
> addresses. This didn't start happening until I upgraded my outlook when I
> installed ActiveSync 4.0 for my Dell Axim X51v.

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V Fair - 22 Dec 2005 03:11 GMT

The email address is displaying when I select the person I want to send my
email too from my contact list when I compose emails. It would actually
display there names before. I also noticed there is now a field (Display As)
located on the contact card now. The only way figured out on how to change
it is cut/paste the name in that field. Thing is, I have over 300 contacts
stored.

> Displaying them where? Outlook will use whatever is stored in the "Display
> As" field.
> > My contacts are displaying email addresses instaed of the names from my
> > contact list. How do I display my contacts names instead of there email
> > addresses. This didn't start happening until I upgraded my outlook when I
> > installed ActiveSync 4.0 for my Dell Axim X51v.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 22 Dec 2005 10:17 GMT

Each version of Outlook has formatted the Display Name differently. It is of
no consequence.

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Russ Valentine
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> The email address is displaying when I select the person I want to send my
> email too from my contact list when I compose emails. It would actually
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>> > when I
>> > installed ActiveSync 4.0 for my Dell Axim X51v.

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marketing@allaboutfocus.com - 22 Dec 2005 16:06 GMT

What I usually do is edit the contact in question and erase the
displayname. My Outlook 2003 then automatically fixes it by putting in
the contact name AND email address for Display Name.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 22 Dec 2005 21:44 GMT

Exactly. That's the format Outlook 2003 uses. They finally got tired of
trying to decide whether users preferred the name or the actual email
address, so now they use both.
Some users are still unhappy.

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Russ Valentine
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> What I usually do is edit the contact in question and erase the
> displayname. My Outlook 2003 then automatically fixes it by putting in
> the contact name AND email address for Display Name.

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