fax and busniess fax fiels creating duplicate contacts

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Matt - 02 Jan 2004 16:31 GMT

When sending an email and using the address book to import
an email address, I have multiple contacts showing up for
contacts that have the fax or business fax fields filled-
out. How can I stop this without having to clear all fax
fields?

thanks,
MB

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 02 Jan 2004 16:56 GMT

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

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> When sending an email and using the address book to import
> an email address, I have multiple contacts showing up for
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> thanks,
> MB

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Leslie - 02 Jan 2004 19:32 GMT

Russ, thank you so much! I have hated having 3 or 4 lines
in my address book for each contact with various fax
numbers listed as types of email addresses! I have spent
lots of time trying to "fix" it - this is such a stupid
way to set it up. Thanks for finally helping me fix this
annoyance.

And Happy New Year's!

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