Contact Tools for Microsoft Outlook

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Outlook Contact Tools

The tools are used to update the phone number field in Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder.

Oher kinds of tools related to contacts are listed at the following pages:

Telephony Tools -- including utilities to copy contacts to mobile phones and to use contacts with Caller ID

DialRight for Outlook	Utility for Outlook 98 or Outlook 2000 (be sure to get the right version) to update North American area codes in Outlook Contacts. Free beta.
Outlook "Big Number" Changer	Free Outlook form with attached Excel file to update United Kingdom telephone numbers in Contacts to use the new codes that go into effect April 22, 2000. For Outlook 97, 98 and 2000. 79.5kb, April 7, 2000.
OutlookNormalizer	Outlook Normalizer is a simple stand alone program for Search and Replace in your Outlook contact data. The straight forward interface will assist you in renaming and formatting names, addresses, phone numbers, area codes, etc for multiple contacts at once.
Phone Number Changer	Source code for Outlook 2000 COM add-in to update phone numbers in Contacts folders with new country code, area code, exchange or local number. By MVP Ken Slovak.
The BIG Number	Utility for converting United Kingdom telephone numbers in Contacts to use the new codes that went into effect April 22, 2000.

Making Contact -- VBA code sample to reconnect imported journal items with related contacts listed in the Contacts box