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Contacts are Grouping in Two Groups of (none)
We occasionally get complaints from people who are using a group by view on Contacts and they have two groups of "(none)", often when grouping by Company or Country (because they are common fields to group by), but grouping by almost any field can result in two different (none) groups. This can happen with contacts
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Using VBA to Change Business Card Image & Layout
While you can create a custom form that will apply to all new contacts, the business card image on existing contacts won't be updated. This is to preserve any business cards you may have already updated. If you really want to update the business card image on your contacts, you can use VBA to quickly make the change. We have code samples to change both the card image and the layout with BusinessCardLayoutXml.
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Macro to Swap First and Last Name Fields
Outlook lets you set the default full name order in Options. You can choose between 'First (Middle) Last' or 'Last First' (no comma separator), as well as 'First Last1 Last2'. The traditional format of 'Last, First', with a comma separator, is also supported by default. Outlook is smart enough to properly assign the names to
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Company Name Exceeds 40 Characters
The Company Name field in Outlook's Contacts are limited to 40 characters when you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector and the Notes field is limited to 1024 characters.
Continue reading: Company Name Exceeds 40 CharactersUsing Large Distribution Lists
My mail provider allows me to use distribution lists with up to 500 members but when I use Outlook 2007, I can only send to about 100 people. Is there any way I can send more than 100 emails from distribution list? No, you can’t use larger distribution lists with Outlook if Outlook says “No”.
Continue reading: Using Large Distribution ListsOutlook Connector Contact Sync Bug (Fixed)
The Outlook Connector Contact Sync Bug is fixed. Hotmail deployed the fix to their servers the week of Sept 15 2011 and Contact Sync is functional again. There may be some minor issues with refreshing the view in Hotmail. If you make a change in Outlook, you may not see the change reflected in Hotmail
Continue reading: Outlook Connector Contact Sync Bug (Fixed)Contacts and Instant Search
Complaints about Instant Search and Contacts keep surfacing: "How do you search Contacts on fields other than the ones that are supported by default? If I expand the Instant Search box, it gives me a handful of common Contact fields, but there doesn't seem to be a way to add/get at a lot of the
Continue reading: Contacts and Instant SearchBulk Move Phone Numbers to a Different Phone Field
Willy shared this with us: "I found your very interesting page on how to bulk edit "FileAS" info for Outlook contacts. I have a Palm Pre 2 and Microsoft Exchange sync. Due to a bug, phone numbers entered in "Other Phone" field in Outlook won't sync with the smartphone. I was seeking a way to
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Question: When a company’s name changes, is there an easy way to change all of the contacts for that company? Yes! Create a group by view and drag contacts between groups. This technique works with any Outlook item for many Outlook fields, including Private and Company but won’t work on fields that aren’t editable. You
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How to Forward a Distribution list
Use this method to share the addresses in a distribution list with anyone, even if they do not use Outlook, or to extract the addresses from a DL. Open the DL Click on the Send button to expand the menu Select In Internet Format (vCard) This opens a new message form with the members of
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