How do I change how the e-mail looks in contacts?

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BcolMpar - 28 Oct 2004 20:29 GMT

Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail address.
How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Oct 2004 20:47 GMT

You can't. Each version of Outlook has done this differently and the format
is not subject to end user control. In Outlook 2002 and 2003 you can
change/edit the Display As field individually for each Contact, but you
can't change the default format Outlook gives the field.

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Russ Valentine
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> Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail address.
> How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?

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sweetmans - 23 Feb 2005 21:49 GMT

I'm not sure that I understand this answer. What good is the Display As
field if it doesn't do what you ask? If you for example put an email
address in the e-mail field, but want it to display by first name only, it
doesn't always work. Is the Display as field not working as one would
think?

> You can't. Each version of Outlook has done this differently and the format
> is not subject to end user control. In Outlook 2002 and 2003 you can
> change/edit the Display As field individually for each Contact, but you
> can't change the default format Outlook gives the field.
> > Some contacts email use have full name display, others the e-mail address.
> > How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 23 Feb 2005 22:37 GMT

I'll turn the question around.
What is it that you need the Display As field to do? What are you trying to
accomplish?

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> I'm not sure that I understand this answer. What good is the Display As
> field if it doesn't do what you ask? If you for example put an email
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>> > address.
>> > How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?

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sweetmans - 23 Feb 2005 22:57 GMT

Well, I think you may have addressed in a similar previous question, but I'm
not sure. I just want to be able to type a person's first name in the To:
field and have the contact information display the text that I typed in the
display name field of the contact.....not with the entire e-mail address
following it. The strange thing, is that it isn't consistent. For some
contacts it will do this, and for others it displays the display name and the
e-mail address following. It just doesn't seem at all consistent in what it
is doing which is really annoying.

> I'll turn the question around.
> What is it that you need the Display As field to do? What are you trying to
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> >> > address.
> >> > How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 24 Feb 2005 04:11 GMT

Indeed, it is not consistent.
What appears in the To: field varies greatly according to the precise method
by which you are
entering the address, your Outlook version, your information store, whether
you are replying or starting a new message, and whether you are using
autocompletion or autoresolution.

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> Well, I think you may have addressed in a similar previous question, but
> I'm
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>> >> > address.
>> >> > How do I standardize the e-mail diplay in contacts?

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