This is a collection of tools useful for updating your Microsoft Outlook Contacts folder. Among this list are tools that "grab" contact data from emails or web pages and create a contact for you. Others will create a contact using the senders display name and email address when you reply to email.
Like the Plaxo service, some of the add-ins will verify the email addresses in your contacts by sending out email messages to everyone in your contacts folder. If the recipient replies with updated information their contact is automatically updated. We don't recommend these services as a rule and many recipients consider this a form of spamming, especially if you use a tool that adds everyone you reply to, to your contacts folder.
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Several other kinds of tools related to contacts are listed on their own pages:
- Contact Management Tools
- Telephony Tools -- including utilities to copy contacts to mobile phones and to use contacts with Caller ID
- Print Labels and Envelopes for Contacts
- Start a Letter from an Outlook Contact
How do I get the standard outlook contact form instead of the new "people" box. I know I can click the 3 dots and select "edit outlook contact", but how do I make that the default behavior?
See https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/use-outlooks-contacts-contact-cards/ - you want to use the 'legacy GAL' key you use contacts, not the contact cards.
Hi Diane,
I am currently working on a contact list within Outlook 2010 with a little over 5000 contacts that belongs to my boss. I exported the contacts to an excel spreadsheet and there are a few fields that I find in the excel spreadsheet, but not in Outlook. Those fields are HomeStreet2, HomeStreet3, BusinessStreet2, BusinessStreet3, OtherStreet2 and OtherStreet3. I have searched all over Outlook and the internet for information on what these fields mean, but I have found nothing conclusive. Could you please explain where these fields are in Outlook and how to input information within those fields in Outlook 2010? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
They are parts of addresses you'd find in a multi-line mailing address - I know the fields exist in field mapping when you export but they aren't in Field chooser.