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Make the Address Book show only e-mail addresses, not fax numbers

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.

Calling from an Outlook Contact does not work

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.

Contacts with more than three email addresses?

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 social connector to bring together all information about a contact. Why are contact's limited to 3 addresses? There should be room for an unlimited number of  

Contacts are missing when you click the To button

What to do if you have Contacts in Microsoft Outlook's Contacts folder but they are not accessible when you click on the To button.

To Link an Outlook Item to a Contact

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 the item. The instructions below are for linking appointments, but you can use them to link any type of Outlook item to Contacts. Beginning with  

Let Outlook decide the best message format to use

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 choices are: Let Outlook decide the best sending format Send using Outlook Rich Text format Send Plain Text only These can be changed one at a  

Inserting Addresses into Word Documents

How to use the Insert Address command to insert information from the Address Book in Microsoft Word documents.

Show the Home Address on a Contact Form by Default

How to customize Outlook Contacts so that the Home address is the default address for all new contacts.

Why is there a leading dash in the business card view?

Outlook users are a great source of interesting and unusual problems to solve, like the problem in this question: "Some of my contacts have a dash (-) showing in the business card title bar. Because it is leading, it is alphabetizing the contacts using the dash first. That messes everything up. There is no dash  

Creating Distribution Lists from Address Lists

Create an Outlook Contact Group from a list of addresses using only copy and paste. No need to create contacts for the addresses first.

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