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John Saunders - 04 Aug 2004 15:02 GMT

... many of the addresses I paste into the address text box.

I'm frequently copying addresses from web sites, and they're often all on one line, or in some other format which Outlook does not appreciate. This leaves me to manually break the address into lines. Since I do not know what formats Outlook is willing to deal with, I wind up doing this several times until I get it "right".

I would like to know which address formats are acceptable to Outlook. I would also like to know where in the documentation this information is located, and how I should have located it in the documentation. I had no luck searching for "entering addresses" or "business address", but perhaps I should have taken some other path.

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 05 Aug 2004 14:24 GMT

You mean street addresses? Outlook expects a standard mailing address format
for the particular country. In the U.S., that would be

1234 Street
City, State Zip

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... many of the addresses I paste into the address text box.

I'm frequently copying addresses from web sites, and they're often all on
one line, or in some other format which Outlook does not appreciate. This
leaves me to manually break the address into lines. Since I do not know what
formats Outlook is willing to deal with, I wind up doing this several times
until I get it "right".

I would like to know which address formats are acceptable to Outlook. I
would also like to know where in the documentation this information is
located, and how I should have located it in the documentation. I had no
luck searching for "entering addresses" or "business address", but perhaps I
should have taken some other path.

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John Saunders
johnwsaundersiii at hotmail

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John Saunders - 05 Aug 2004 18:09 GMT

Yes, I meant street addresses.

Too bad the Internet sites I'm visiting don't have a standard mailing
address format.

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> You mean street addresses? Outlook expects a standard mailing address format
> for the particular country. In the U.S., that would be
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> luck searching for "entering addresses" or "business address", but perhaps I
> should have taken some other path.

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