Can't see company contact info in Task list.

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otownkayaker@gmail.com - 26 Mar 2007 23:17 GMT

I'm using Outlook 2007 and would like to use the company field from
the contact that I have linked to the task to appear in my Active
tasks. Using Tasks, In the default active tasks view (it actually
occurs in all views I try), I add a column using the field choser
dialog of type "company", but nothing ever shows up there, even though
the contact shows up under the contacts column and I have a company
defined for the contact. I tried to do this in Outlook 2003 as well
with the same results. I'd also like to add the phone # field, as I
make a lot of calls from my task list, but I can't get it to display
the info either....Agggh!

Thanks in Advance
Mike

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 27 Mar 2007 00:11 GMT

Outlook doesn't do that out of the box. Any folder view shows only the data in that folder, even though Outlook lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from different types of items in the folder. 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'm using Outlook 2007 and would like to use the company field from
> the contact that I have linked to the task to appear in my Active
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> Thanks in Advance
> Mike

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otownkayaker@gmail.com - 27 Mar 2007 05:14 GMT

Thanks Sue!
I'm not a programmer by nature so it'll take me awhile to work through
this and get it working for the task list. Makes me wonder why this
just isn't default behavior in Outlook, it would seem like a very
obvious feature. All the other PIM type applications seem to have
this.....

On Mar 26, 7:11 pm, "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]"
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> Outlook doesn't do that out of the box. Any folder view shows only the data in that folder, even though Outlook lets you think otherwise by allowing you to add fields from different types of items in the folder. You can accomplish what you want, however, with a little custom VBA code. For an example, seehttp://www.outlookcode.com/codedetail.aspx?id=566
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