How eliminate autofill of USA in country field -- leave blank

[Squirrel]

The country field on the Contact page autofills with "United States of
America," which then has to be deleted when one makes a label. How can one
suppress this? The Post Office doesn't want us putting United States of
America on mail posted within the USA.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Normally it is not necessary for the country/region field to be blank in
Outlook. Instead, users should control how addresses are inserted into Word.
To learn about ways to control how an Address is inserted into Word from
Outlook, take a look here:
Word 2000/2002:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/insword.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q134901

Word 2003/2007:
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

More recent versions of Office (XP and 2003) are more dysfunctional when it
comes to inserting addresses. Modifying AddressLayout in Word 2002 will
apply only to addresses inserted into a document, but not to Envelopes or
Labels. The KB offers the following kludgy workaround:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;292127

In Outlook 2002 and 2003, most users find that the country/region field is
no longer populated by default in new Contacts as it was in earlier
versions.