Contacts

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  

When Outlook's Instant Search is not working as expected, you may need to rebuild the search index. I'll show you how.

How to use VBA to move Outlook's Contact phone numbers to a different phone number field. This is useful when syncing smartphones that support different fields.

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  

How to forward an Outlook Contact Group (distribution list). When you forward the list in Internet Format, a text file containing a list of members. T he recipient can copy the member list from the text file and create their won contact group.

To use categories to create a dynamic distribution list, switch to the By Category view then select the category group you want to send a message to. You can use this method to create meeting requests, appointments, task, or journal items. In Outlook 2007 and 2010, to create an appointment linked to a contact or  

Microsoft Outlook stores Contact and Address book options in three different locations. These settings control which Contacts folders Outlook uses as address books, the order Outlook searches for addresses, and which address book is used as the default when you click the To button.

How to change the default country Outlook assigns to new contacts. I also show you how to update the country used with existing contacts.

Microsoft Outlook does not support importing multiple vCards – you need to import them one vcard at a time. While this is tolerable for a few, its frustrating when you a large number to import. Rather than using Outlook's File, Import and Export menu to bring the vCards into Outlook, you can drag them from  

How to use Microsoft Word to print labels and envelopes in several different ways, including mail merge. A mail merge using Outlook and Word can handle not just built-in fields, but also custom fields added to Contact items.