When requesting an address I always have to choose my profile.

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Marcel Kollenaar - 26 Sep 2004 19:18 GMT

Hi,

On Windows XP SP1, Outlook 2002 SP3, Word 2002 SP3.

I discover the next problem as mentioned hereafter. It's comming from the
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ Site.

"The user may find that the first time they run the macro in each Word
session, they might see the "Choose profile" dialog and have to click OK:
{picture} And/or, they may find that the "Select Names" dialog displayed by
the macro doesn't automatically display their contacts, and they have to
select the drop-down and select "Contacts" every time.

If your users experience either of these problems, it is down to an Outlook
configuration issue, and you should post the details in the
microsoft.public.outlook.contacts newsgroup.

Does anybody know how I can change this behaviour?

Regards,

Marcel

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 26 Sep 2004 22:56 GMT

You've provided no information so far that would permit an answer--not even
a specific question or error message.
List the precise steps that produce the behavior you don't like and how you
have Outlook configured with regards to profiles, transports and address
services.

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Marcel - 27 Sep 2004 10:26 GMT

Hi Russ,

Sorry, you are right.

I'll will tell something more about it. I have a form in Word2002 with a
button. The button does a Application.Getaddress command to get an address
from Outlook. When I push the button a dialog is shown were I have to chose
the profile first.This is annoying. When I start Outlook from the program
menu it doesn't ask me this, why dows it now? I read in an article on the
MVP-site that might a be a configuration issue of Outlook and they point you
to this group.

> List the precise steps that produce the behavior you don't like and how
> you have Outlook configured with regards to profiles, transports and
> address services.

If it is no simple switch or checkbox than it would be an enourmous overkill
for this problem. Outlook is as standard installed as possible because this
behaviour is on all the computers I tested this. Computers in a network and
computers in a single user environment with only a simple adsl connection,
or modem. Therefore if it gives a problem on the most standard installs of
Office there must be a standard solution.

Or it must be that the MVP site mention something that is by design.

Regards,

Marcel

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 27 Sep 2004 10:36 GMT

You'll want to verify this in an Outlook programming group. All I can tell
you is that there are certain calls that Word makes to Outlook that will
always prompt for a profile no matter what (and there is no configuration
change you can make to prevent it). Mail merges from Word, for example, will
prompt for a profile even when you have only one or when you already have an
active profile running.

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Marcel - 27 Sep 2004 12:35 GMT

Hello Russ,

In that case I take this behaviour of Word for granted and call the
information the MVP site provided as not accurate. Simple.

Thanks for your time and words.

Marcel

> You'll want to verify this in an Outlook programming group. All I can tell
> you is that there are certain calls that Word makes to Outlook that will
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 27 Sep 2004 13:35 GMT

I'd still ask in an Outlook programming group. The only thing I can verify
is that the call made by Word's Mail merge invokes a prompt for a profile
that cannot be dismissed. There may be workarounds for other types of calls.

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