Updating e-mail addresses in distribution lists

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lanboy - 08 Nov 2004 00:26 GMT

When a Contact's e-mail address is changed in Contacts, the "Update Now"
button in a distribution list does not update the contacts e-mail address in
the distribution list. The change in the Contact also changes the Display
Name (First Last (e-mail address)) which is, I think, why the distribution
list remains unchanged. The Default display name should not contain the
e-mail address to make managing distribution lists easier.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 08 Nov 2004 00:52 GMT

The default Display Name is not in play here.
Update Now has rarely, if ever, worked for Distributions Lists. That's one
of many reasons few of us use them.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

> When a Contact's e-mail address is changed in Contacts, the "Update Now"
> button in a distribution list does not update the contacts e-mail address
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> list remains unchanged. The Default display name should not contain the
> e-mail address to make managing distribution lists easier.

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Chuck Davis - 08 Nov 2004 01:29 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>The default Display Name is not in play here.
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You will find that members of the distribution list that
existed on a prior release will not update in the current
release. Remove the older members and Select Members again.
Following that they will update with new e-mail addresses.
I use Alt+W, to update and Alt+S to save the distribution list.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 08 Nov 2004 02:14 GMT

My point, exactly.

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Russ Valentine
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>>-----Original Message-----
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> Following that they will update with new e-mail addresses.
> I use Alt+W, to update and Alt+S to save the distribution list.

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lanboy - 08 Nov 2004 08:41 GMT

Hey, thanks for the responses, guys! However, this is a distribution list
that was not created with a previous version of Outlook (I use Office 2002).
I also found that when an e-mail address is added to a contact, the display
name defaults to First Last (e-mail_address). If I change the display name
to First Last by deleting the e-mail address reference, the Update Now button
works as expected. It's just that going through every contact and manually
changing the display name of each one is a bit out of the question. I'm
trying to find a way to change the default format for the display name.

> My point, exactly.
> >
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> > Following that they will update with new e-mail addresses.
> > I use Alt+W, to update and Alt+S to save the distribution list.

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