Some fields cannot be edited on "All Fields" tab on Contact forms

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BR - 19 Feb 2006 18:58 GMT

Should every field on the All Fields tab be editable? Some of the
fields, for example "E-mail 2" will not permit inline field editing on
that tab. Is this expected or configurable somewhere? Couldn't dig up
any information on this in Microsoft's help, site, or newsgroups. I
have users who prefer to use that tab to edit contact information and I
can't see any reason why these should be greyed out.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 19 Feb 2006 19:54 GMT

This is expected behavior. The email addresses stored in contacts are not simple text fields; each is a combination of three different text fields. You'll need to edit them on the General tab, not on All Fields.

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> Should every field on the All Fields tab be editable? Some of the
> fields, for example "E-mail 2" will not permit inline field editing on
> that tab. Is this expected or configurable somewhere? Couldn't dig up
> any information on this in Microsoft's help, site, or newsgroups. I
> have users who prefer to use that tab to edit contact information and I
> can't see any reason why these should be greyed out.

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