Otlook 2002 Address book issue.

[Dave McDuell]

If I put in a Business FAX into a contact, I get a
duplicate contact listed when I compose a new message and
click on "To" to egt their email address from contacts.
If I remove the business FAX number the duplicate goes
away. Why ??

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Behaving as designed.
The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display all
electronic addresses (both fax and e-mail). That behavior cannot be changed.
The only way to prevent the display of fax numbers is to store them in a
different field or to disguise them (e.g., precede them with an alpha
character) so that Outlook won't recognize them as phone numbers.
There are also a number of utilities available that can do this for you
automatically. Some are listed here:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/nofax.htm