contacts

An Outlook user had this complaint: "I used to click on the address book icon and the address book would open to a nice listing of my contacts.  Now I get a search box requiring me to enter a search term.  How do I get my old address book format back?" Type your search keywords and click "Go" to perform a search At the top of the address book dialog are two … [Read more...] about Tip 810: Outlook's Address Book Search

An Outlook user asked: When I click on "To" to select who I am sending an email to, the "Select Names" dialog box pops up, with "Show Names From The" "Contacts" by default.The list of contact is sorted "First Name Last Name" how do I reverse this ? In "Tools / Options / Contacts / Contacts Options" I already have "Last First" selected in both boxes.The Contacts Options … [Read more...] about Tip 716: Change Address Book Sort Order

A user had this question:I occasionally need to copy the name, title, company and address of an individual contact to a Word or Excel document. Or in some cases all of the data I have for a contact. Is there a way to do that without copying line by line.  It seems like there should be a way to copy and paste all of the data for a contact with a single command - … [Read more...] about Tip 685: Copy Contact name and address blocks

Update: If you use a 4 or 5 digit area code Outlook will not format the numbers. In the US, any 4 digits will do; if it doesn't work for you, try using 99999.If you are one of the users who doesn’t like how Outlook formats numbers or you sync with a PDA that doesn’t understand formatted phone numbers, you can temporarily stop the formatting by pausing the Telephony … [Read more...] about Tip 608: More Number Formatting

If your contacts use different File As formats and you’d like to have all contacts use a single format but opening each contact to change the FileAs will take more time that you want to spend on it, you can use VBA to change the File As format on all contacts within minutes. A code sample (tested with Outlook 2002, 2003, 2007, and 2010) is available at Bulk Change File … [Read more...] about Tip 542: Change File As Format