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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / January 2004business fax listed for contacts without email addresses
Contacts that don't have email addresses show up in the "TO" list with the business fax number listed next to the name. How can I change this? The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display all electronic addresses (both fax and e-mail). That behavior cannot be changed. The only way to prevent the display of fax numbers is to store them in a different field or to disguise them (e.g., precede them with an alpha character) so that Outlook won't recognize them as phone numbers. There are also a number of utilities available that can do this for you automatically. Some are listed here: http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/nofax.htm  SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > Contacts that don't have email addresses show up in > the "TO" list with the business fax number listed next to > the name. How can I change this? >The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display all >electronic addresses (both fax and e-mail). That behavior cannot be changed. Someone needs to tell MS that that is the dumbest thing that users have ever seen. -- JC For you, perhaps. Not I. I need to send to mixed recipient types and prefer all my electronic addresses to be in one place. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > >The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display all [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > -- JC >For you, perhaps. Not I. >I need to send to mixed recipient types and prefer all my electronic >addresses to be in one place. Well congrats to you. But considering the number of people that have posted about the topic and considering the number of times you've responded then.... There should be a way to toggle the display of fax numbers on an off (and similarly e-mail addresses on and off) for those users that want to do so. MS should have built that feature into the prog. PERIOD. Using a third party plugin for the job is a very ugly and awkward workaround. -- JC I quite agree. I've made that request. You can too. The more the merrier. You can send Outlook feature requests to mswish@microsoft.com with "Outlook" in the subject and to outwish@microsoft.com SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > >For you, perhaps. Not I. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > -- JC |
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