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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / May 2006Create new contact from e-mail received?
Is there a way to prevent creating a duplicate contact when I drag an e-mail into my contacts folder to add them to my database? If you are configured correctly, you will be prompted if an entry is a duplicate. What happens if you use the R click > Add to Contacts method?  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Is there a way to prevent creating a duplicate contact when I drag an > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? I guess I'm not configured correctly, because I did a test and dragged in a dupe and I was not prompted! What should I do to configure correctly? When I right click on the e-mail message, the window that appears does not give me the option to 'add to contacts'? Also the reason why I like to drag is that I want to add the contact to my public folders and by dragging I can just direct it to the appropriate address book, instead of it defaulting to my personal address book. > If you are configured correctly, you will be prompted if an entry is a > duplicate. What happens if you use the R click > Add to Contacts method? > > Is there a way to prevent creating a duplicate contact when I drag an > > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? You add addresses to Contacts, not messages. Open a message and r click an address and see if you get prompted when you add a duplicate. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] >I guess I'm not configured correctly, because I did a test and dragged in a > dupe and I was not prompted! What should I do to configure correctly? [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? so I did that and didn't prompt me that a duplicate existed? also, that automatically defaults to my personal contacts and does not allow me to choose a public contact folder to add to? > You add addresses to Contacts, not messages. Open a message and r click an > address and see if you get prompted when you add a duplicate. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? Now you're adding more variables into the equation. The behavior you seek will only apply to your default Contacts Folder and only when the Outlook Address Book Service is correctly configured for that folder. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > so I did that and didn't prompt me that a duplicate existed? also, that > automatically defaults to my personal contacts and does not allow me to [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? Thank you, so even if I was configured correctly it would only work for my personal contacts not the public, so it can't work for what I need! oh well. > Now you're adding more variables into the equation. The behavior you seek > will only apply to your default Contacts Folder and only when the Outlook [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > >> >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? That is my understanding, but you are actually not asking an Outlook question when you ask about Public Folders. Those are in the Exchange domain. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Thank you, so even if I was configured correctly it would only work for my > personal contacts not the public, so it can't work for what I need! oh [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >> >> >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? Oh, I'm a bit confused with that? so for future, I shouldn't ask any Public Folder Questions in this forum? where would I ask those questions? > That is my understanding, but you are actually not asking an Outlook > question when you ask about Public Folders. Those are in the Exchange [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > >> >> >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? You can ask them here since many Outlook users connect to Exchange and can figure them out. I, however, am not one of them. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Oh, I'm a bit confused with that? so for future, I shouldn't ask any > Public [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] >> >> >> >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? got it! thanks for all your help. > You can ask them here since many Outlook users connect to Exchange and can > figure them out. I, however, am not one of them. [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > >> >> >> >> > into my contacts folder to add them to my database? > Oh, I'm a bit confused with that? so for future, I shouldn't ask any > Public Folder Questions in this forum? where would I ask those > questions? news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.admin or news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.design or news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.misc seem good places to me. SignatureBrian Tillman great, thanks for the links. > > Oh, I'm a bit confused with that? so for future, I shouldn't ask any > > Public Folder Questions in this forum? where would I ask those [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.misc seem good places > to me. |
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