Contacts & Active Directory

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rainstorms21

Hi,
Whenever I place an email address in a contact's profile, if that email
address is found in Active Directory, it replaces it with the person's name.
Is there a way I can stop this from happening? I'd like to leave as the
email address and not the person's name.

Thanks,
R
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

It might be helpful if you provided some details on what address lists you
have configured in Outlook.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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Michael

I just imported my address book from OE. She is using her Palm on this
computer, so switched to synching with Outlook rather than Palm Desktop. When
I check Tools, e-mail accounts, there is only the PoP 3 server showing.
Nothing else I can eliminate. This isn't a big issue. Once you click off the
error message, she just has to select "contacts" from a drop down box. That
said, why do most names show up twice - their SMTP address and fax?

Thanks for your help.
 
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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

Outlook version? Sounds like you looked under email accounts, but not
address books if you're using Outlook 2002 or 2003.

Outlook considers fax numbers to be valid electronic addresses, since there
are many client- and server-based components that can use such addresses.

One method to hide fax numbers from the address book is to prefix the fax
number with one or more letters (maybe B for business fax, H for home, O for
other). If the fax number begins with a letter, Outlook won't show it in the
address book. This definitely works in Outlook 2000 and 2002.

There are a couple of utilities that can help you hide fax numbers from the
address book. See http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/rshifa.htm and
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook_Solutions.htm (Hide Fax Numbers).

Another way to avoid avoid having fax numbers appear in the address book is
simply not to enter data in the fax fields. Put fax numbers in some other
(non-phone) fields.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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