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dougp01
I have an address book with a couple thousand names. When I receive an
email, I often need to decide if I am going to look up the contact or add the
contact by using the right-click feature in the email header.
I should think it a simple thing to add a little feature to the "Look up"
piece of this.
If the look up gets no hits, because the name is not in the address list,
simply place a link in the popup alert window that allows the option to add
the contact. Right now it simply gives a bit of fairly useless help. I
close that window and then right-click the address again to use Add Outlook
Contact.
I've found that if I negelect looking up the name and then just add it,
thinking it's not there, then I frequently end up with duplicates.
Another thing to consider might be to do a personal address book search (in
the background) and while the email is being viewed, simply highlight those
entries that already exist. If there is thumbnail picture, you could even
show that alongside the name. Better still, how about a mouseover popup of
the image and mouseout dissolve?
Thanks, -Doug
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email, I often need to decide if I am going to look up the contact or add the
contact by using the right-click feature in the email header.
I should think it a simple thing to add a little feature to the "Look up"
piece of this.
If the look up gets no hits, because the name is not in the address list,
simply place a link in the popup alert window that allows the option to add
the contact. Right now it simply gives a bit of fairly useless help. I
close that window and then right-click the address again to use Add Outlook
Contact.
I've found that if I negelect looking up the name and then just add it,
thinking it's not there, then I frequently end up with duplicates.
Another thing to consider might be to do a personal address book search (in
the background) and while the email is being viewed, simply highlight those
entries that already exist. If there is thumbnail picture, you could even
show that alongside the name. Better still, how about a mouseover popup of
the image and mouseout dissolve?
Thanks, -Doug
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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...de559867&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.contacts