Batch Change of email Addresses

[mucrick]

I have several individuals in Contacts that work for a company that recently
merged. Subsequently, their email addresses have all changed (e.g., from
@mail.abccompany.net to just @abc.net). Will Outlook 2002 allow me to update
all at once (if so, how) or do I have to make the changes manually, 1 by 1?

Thanks for the help!

mucrick

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have several individuals in Contacts that work for a company that
recently merged. Subsequently, their email addresses have all
changed (e.g., from @mail.abccompany.net to just @abc.net). Will
Outlook 2002 allow me to update all at once (if so, how) or do I have
to make the changes manually, 1 by 1?

You can't make global changes like that from within Outlook, to the best of
my knowledge. You can do it one-by-one or you can export those entries to a
CSV, delete them from Outlook, make the changes with Excel and then import
again.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You can't make global changes on email addresses, except by exporting to a
text file and using search and replace - but you can make global changes
easily for fields like company name - basically anything that you can group
on and wouldn't use a unique string with each contact.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2003/20030714.htm


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