Changing address book display information

[BruceM]

I have Outlook 2000. Some of my Contacts have two or more e-mail addresses.
Sometimes I want to send to just one of those addresses, but I cannot find a
way for the address book to display anything other than Name (E-mail), Name
(E-mail 2), etc. The problem is that I need to either remember which one
is, for instance, the home address, or I need to add both to the To line and
then view the properties. I can change the display name, which is
presumably what the person at the other end sees, but that doesn't help me.
Is there a way to display something in the address book more useful than the
default labels? The one piece of information I don't need is that this is
an e-mail address.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have Outlook 2000. Some of my Contacts have two or more e-mail
addresses. Sometimes I want to send to just one of those addresses,
but I cannot find a way for the address book to display anything
other than Name (E-mail), Name (E-mail 2), etc. The problem is that
I need to either remember which one is, for instance, the home
address, or I need to add both to the To line and then view the
properties. I can change the display name, which is presumably what
the person at the other end sees, but that doesn't help me. Is there
a way to display something in the address book more useful than the
default labels? The one piece of information I don't need is that
this is an e-mail address.

Can't you just use the horizontal scroll bar and slide over until you see
which address is which? You could also make it a habit to always enter the
home address as E-mail and the business address as E-mail2 so that if you do
see two matching names, you automatically know the first is the home address
and the second is the business address.

 

[BruceM]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I can use the scroll bar. I forgot to mention
that. Still, it would be convenient if I could substitute (Home) or (Work)
for (E-mail) or (E-mail 2). Since I cannot control the size of the To
dialog box, and cannot control what appears in the small space available for
Contact information, I wanted to changed what appeared in that space. Yes,
I can try to remember that E-mail is home and E-mail 2 is work, but it isn't
always that simple. Some people have 2 work addresses, for instance.
Anyhow, no big deal. I do have to wonder, though, since Contact won't
accept anything other than an e-mail address in that space, why somebody at
Microsoft decided I had to know it was an e-mail address.