RSSHelp managing Contact birthdays that are automatically added by Outlook to your calendar. Included are macros to added birthdays for imported contacts and to change the reminder time.
How to use VBA to automatically add addresses you reply to, to your Outlook Contacts folder.
How to add photos to Outlook contacts, either by editing each contact or using VBA or a utility to add images to all contacts.
The default email display name in the address book used to be "Full Name (Email1)", "Full Name (Email2)", "Full Name (Email3)" but beginning with Outlook 2002, it was changed...
Outlook Contacts offer a number of File As formats and this format can be used for the contact's name display in the Address Book. If you want to change the FileAs format on all of your contacts at once, you can use VBA. Complete, ready-to-use code is available.
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.
You may not be able to dial phone calls from Microsoft Outlook if Office Communicator or other phone applications are installed. You can fix the problem with a simple registry edit.
You’ll find some debate over which method is better for managing different types of contacts — have more than one Contacts folder (Personal, Business, etc.) or use one Contacts...
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...
An often asked question about Microsoft Outlook 2007 & 2010's Business card layout is how to change it for all contacts. While you can't globally change existing contacts directly,...
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.
When you hover over an address on an email message, the Outlook - OCS 2007 R2 integration displays incorrect user contact information. In this particular case, popup shows previous title of the user. The GAL is showing latest info.
How to enable Contact Linking in Outlook 2007 and create new appointments with contacts.
When Outlook's Instant Search is not working as expected, you may need to rebuild the search index. I'll show you how.
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...
If you have Contacts in Microsoft Outlook's Contacts folder but they are not accessible when you click on the To button, check these settings: Are you using the "wrong"...
Problem: When you use Windows 64-bit Fax and Scan application, Outlook’s contacts are not available. This happens because Outlook is a 32-bit application and runs on a WOW layer...
Microsoft Outlook (every version) has just three address fields. Some users need more fields: Email addresses are used for more than sending emails. They are also used by the...
We’re concerned in this case with the order in which address books are listed in the Address Book, under the Show Names from list. If you are using Microsoft...
Note that the Personal Address Book service is not available in Microsoft Outlook 2010; if you still use a PAB you will need to import it into Outlook's Contacts...
Applies to: Microsoft Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 An Outlook user had this question: I upgraded to Outlook 2007 & I'm missing a feature that was in Outlook...
Create an Outlook Contact Group from a list of addresses using only copy and paste. No need to create contacts for the addresses first.
How to display Microsoft Exchange server Public folders and shared Contact folders as Outlook Address Books.
How to enable your Outlook contacts folders as address books, so it is available when you click the To button when composing email.
How to use VBA to create a list of the distribution lists (contact groups) your Outlook Contacts belong to.
When Contacts are automatically updated, you need to check the settings in Outlook's Social Connector, which has automatic updates of contacts enabled by default. A change log is added to notes so you know what was changed.
How to change the Map service that Outlook uses for the MapIt feature in Outlook Contacts to use your favorite map website.
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.
Many thanks to Hernan Cibello for this tip, originally used with Exchange 5.5 and Outlook 2000. With later versions of Exchange and Outlook, you need to add the distribution...
The following methods are marked to indicate whether they are appropriate for the Personal Address Book (PAB), Contacts folders in the Outlook Address Book (OAB) or Microsoft Exchange Server Global Address List (GAL). In many cases, the techniques used for printing can also be adapted to exporting.
Please note that personal address book (PAB) was deprecated, beginning with Outlook 2002, and their use is not supported in Outlook 2010. We highly recommend that anyone who still...
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...
How to use the Insert Address command to insert information from the Address Book in Microsoft Word documents.
How to change the default country Outlook assigns to new contacts. I also show you how to update the country used with existing contacts.
A contact in Microsoft Outlook can have up to three e-mail addresses and for each address, you can select the format that Outlook should use for sending e-mails. Your...
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...
Outlook includes fax numbers in the address book because they are valid electronic addresses. You can hide fax numbers from the address book by using a macro or an addin.
How to fix shared contact groups that error with "One or more members of this contact group cannot be found."
Outlook 2013 has a neat feature where all contacts for a person are linked together and the aggregate data from all of the linked contacts is displayed on a contact card, with the source of the data listed on the contact card.
When Outlook resolves email addresses, it searches your address book for potential matches, checking each address list until it finds at least one match, then it stops when it reaches the end of that list. You can change the order Outlook searches the address lists.
A distribution list is a group of e-mail addresses, usually grouped under a single e-mail address. When you send to a distribution list, you’re really sending to everyone whose...
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...
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.
Understanding the difference between Outlook's Contacts, the Outlook Address Book, and the Autocomplete list.
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.
How to send an email message to all addresses assigned to a Microsoft Outlook contact.
How to share distribution list (contact groups) with other users, or why it's problematic to share them.
How to customize Outlook Contacts so that the Home address is the default address for all new contacts.
How to incorporate Outlook data into a Word letter, using built-in methods, VBA code, or a third-party tool.
When you open a Contact form, all data on the clipboard is cleared. If you look at the Office clipboard, you might see some icons in the clipboard, ahead...
How to calculate the age of a contact and display it in the view or on the contact form.
These labels are no longer used in current versions of Outlook. One of these labels appears in the address if you select the name from the Contacts list in...
Beginning with Microsoft Outlook 2000, linking between Contacts and other items in improved – you can link contacts using the Contact linking field and don’t need to insert shortcuts...
In certain configurations, Microsoft Outlook can expose data in the Contacts folder to the Windows Address Book (WAB) that Outlook Express uses. In effect, this means that Outlook and Outlook Express are sharing the contacts. Creating a new contact in the WAB actually creates a new contact in the Outlook Contacts folder.
Outlook 2013's Contacts have a new default view called People and a new Contact Cards.
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...
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...
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.
Outlook has a confusing array of address books - the Personal Address Book (PAB), the Outlook Address book, and Contacts. If you use Exchange Server, you'll have an address book called the GAL (Global Address book).
Outlook users are a great source of interesting and unusual problems to solve, like this one: "Some of my contacts have a dash (-) showing in the business card...
