How can I have my contacts phone# appear when creating a Tasks

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deepc33 - 06 Jul 2006 16:24 GMT

I want to view the phone number listed in my contact information when
creating a Task for that contact. I customized the Task view to include those
collumns and have been able to view the associated contact name but it will
not show me the phone number. Please advise,

Doug

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 06 Jul 2006 23:37 GMT

Any item shows only the data in that item, even though Outlook lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from other types of items. You can accomplish what you want, however, with a little custom VBA code. For an example, see http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=566

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>I want to view the phone number listed in my contact information when
> creating a Task for that contact. I customized the Task view to include those
> collumns and have been able to view the associated contact name but it will
> not show me the phone number. Please advise,
>
> Doug

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deepc33 - 07 Jul 2006 16:26 GMT

Sue this sounds way over my head...I'm a simple user and not a programmer. Is
this code something that I should send to our exchange team for
implementation?

> Any item shows only the data in that item, even though Outlook lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from other types of items. You can accomplish what you want, however, with a little custom VBA code. For an example, see http://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=566
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 07 Jul 2006 16:33 GMT

This is not Exchange functionality. It's Outlook functionality I doubt if your Exchange team would be interested or capable of implementing it. Not that they're not capable about Exchange, it's just that this is beyond their job description, and they have other things they're supposed to be doing other than writing VBA code for an individual user.

I think if you gave it a try, you'd find that Outlook VBA code is pretty easy to implement. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vbabasics.htm for basics.

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> Sue this sounds way over my head...I'm a simple user and not a programmer. Is
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