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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / January 2008Copy and paste Contacts as text not vCards
How do you paste or insert contact info into an email or doc as text instead of as a vCard? In previous versions (2002 for example) you could use the Insert -> Item command, select your contact and the Text Only option and it would insert it. Now in Outlook 2003 SP1 the Text Only option is disabled (greyed out). Thus you get stuck with a vCard attachment. Any suggestions Drag the contact from the Contacts folder to your Inbox folder. The message that opens will contain the contact information in the body of the message.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > How do you paste or insert contact info into an email or doc as text > instead [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > (greyed out). Thus you get stuck with a vCard attachment. Any > suggestions Hi There, I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you. > Drag the contact from the Contacts folder to your Inbox folder. The message > that opens will contain the contact information in the body of the message. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > (greyed out). Thus you get stuck with a vCard attachment. Any > > suggestions I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi There, > > I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the > old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to > remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you. Hi Sue, Actually, my process was as follows: - While in Contacts to Ctrl-C a contact object or more. - When back in my email message content, I would CTRL-V the copied contact objects. The object would then appear as a .msg attachement. Under Office XP and 2000, I seem to recall that this action would still yeild a .vcf attachment. Do you have any ideas on this? I sort of caught a MS KB on this at: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.support.microsoft.com%2fkb%2 f182083%2fen-us%2f I am still reading this. Thank you. > I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to > > remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you. That copy/paste process has always inserted an embedded item, which the receiving user would have seen as an .msg file. If you want to send an actual vCard .vcf file, you'll need to use the Forward as vCard or File | Save As command. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> > old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to >> > remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you. Ms. Sue: I have used Outlook 2000 for years, now I am on 2003 and want to be able to insert a contact as an item in to a email as "TEXT" and show the "NOTES AREA" of a contact. It does on 2000, not on 2003 though. Basically, anywhere there was data in a Contact it would put it in as text into a email. Barry HEston > That copy/paste process has always inserted an embedded item, which the receiving user would have seen as an .msg file. If you want to send an actual vCard .vcf file, you'll need to use the Forward as vCard or File | Save As command. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >> > old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to > >> > remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you. I guess to be more specific, I am referring to tthe capabilities of OLE for vCards. Thank you and I very much appreciate your work. JP > I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to > > remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you. The message states that I must first enter a valid email address for the contact. I just want to post the text from that contact in the email body? What am I doing wrong? Your message seems straight forward but it's not working for me. Thank you. > Drag the contact from the Contacts folder to your Inbox folder. The message > that opens will contain the contact information in the body of the message. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > (greyed out). Thus you get stuck with a vCard attachment. Any > > suggestions |
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