How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field?

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    - Re: How to export Exchange Outlook Public Folder Contacts to CSV file Export Contacts Items from Office Outlook - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/EM102566171033.aspx Contacts Exporter for Microsoft Exchange Server is small utility specially designed for Microsoft Outlook users to export Contacts Items from any Microsoft Office Outlook and/or Microsoft Exchange Public Contacts Folder (or private Mailbox folder) to Microsoft Office Access table or Microsoft Office Excel file. http://www.imibo.com/imidev/Exchange/imice.htm "IMI Contact Exporter" export contacts from ANY folder, including shared and public folders.. "Helmut" <Helmut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3FE1423E-ACB3-4767-B431-5233296843B2@microsoft.com... | I'm trying to use 'email-merge' from Publisher but can't see the Exchange | Public Folder Contacts. So I tried to create a file from Outlook to a CSV. | But this appears to work also only with the Contacts and not with the Public | Folder Contacts. | Can anyone help me with this one? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125756
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    - Outlook - Address Book If I try to enter an Email address from the Address Book into the cc or bcc, it always adss it to the "TO" line. Have to cut and paste it where I want it to go. What am I doing wrong. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125751
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    - Outlook 2003 - strange contacts problem. User1 sends email messages with the correct email address to User2. User2 does not receive them. The messages are not stuck in the Outbox and are listed in the Sent Items folder. The problem continued until the nickname entry and Outlook contacts entry for user2 were deleted. Why is this? Does scanpst.exe fix this type of problem? Thanks for any replies. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125748
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    - Symbols within text - please help! I've got a problem with Outlook whereby symbols are appearing and punctuation in between every word i type. Please take a look: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3035/2572119529_67ddb582e7_o.jpg How can i fix this? Many thanks. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125746
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    - User-defined fields How many user-defined fields can you create in outlook 2003? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125739
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    - how do i retrieve lost contacts i tried to create a new category and when i did it pulled in the same contacts as an existing category. I went to edit the new category by deleting contacts i didnt want in that category and it deleted the same from the existing category i wanted to keep the same. Can I retrieve those lost contacts and how do I get my category back. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125736
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    - large distribution list How do i create a distribution list with 500 names. There seems to be problems when i get to about 100. I have to create 7 with 70 names in order to successfully mail to my organization. bob Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125732
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    - Save and use my configured Advanced Find Results. How? I have found it useful to add and remove columns from the results in Advanced Find. However, it would be even more useful if I could save the configuration for future use. For example: Advanced Find now displays it search results for Contacts as columns for name, company, displayed as, phone numbers, etc. I would like to show Job Title and User Definable Fields here, instead of business fax, etc informationl; for more productive use. Can I do this? And how? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125731
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    - Contacts show blank under Contacts\Address Book button I have search and tried a number of fixes. Recreated profile...removed and readded outlook address book, Re-installed Outlook etc...nada I am running Outlook 2003 in an Exchange environment. If I click on my contacts folder and add a new contact...it saves fine. When I click the address book option, select contacts and try to find the new entry...it is not there. If I go back and click the contacts folder it is in there. On a different machine...different profile...the persons contacts is blank when you select it from the address book button. If you click the contacts folder there are entries in there. Anyone have an idea of what's going on? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125728
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    - Outlook 2003 and Sharepoint I am working on a large multicenter project with three other people in a large academic setting. We have Outlook and Access 2003 on our computers. In addition, we have a Sharepoint website that is hosted by a third party. We have a large list of contacts that are devided into various committees and subgroups, and we are running into challenges maintaining the contact lists for communication. I have a couple of questions... At this point, we do not know of a way to link the contact information in our Access database with our Outlook contacts and distribution lists. Is that possible? We have tried creating Outlook distribution lists on the global directory with limited permissions as a means for members of our group to have access to the lists for communications, but this requires negotiating with our IT group to update the list. As our contact list is dynamic and there are frequent changes, this has proven ineffective. Is there a way to share contacts that allows others to send mail to shared distribution lists? We have been successful in sending mail to shared contacts, but the distribution lists will not work. Is it possible to maintain the contact list on Sharepoint in a way that would maintain the distribution lists? If not, do you have any suggestions on how we could integrate these 3 Microsoft products in a way that we are not having to update and maintain 3 separate lists of contact information? Thanks! Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125727
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    - Contact filtering Does anyone know if there is a way to create a contact view in Outlook 2007 that is filtered by the first letter of either the last name field or the file as field. I used to use tabview organizer, and their tech support and I worked out SQL code (for the SQL tab) that allowed for this in their product, but they have not been able to get it to work properly with Outlook 2007, so I have lost the functionality since I upgraded. I have 34000 contacts in Outlook, and it would be great to be able to only look at a smaller list (by letter), rather than having to scroll through all 34000 contacts every time I need to find someone. Also, (and this is probably for the 3rd party addons discussion group, but someone might know) does anyone know of an addon similiar to 2007, that allows for multiple views to be overlapped (Tabview allowed me to create a view, i.e. "clients", using the built in view creator, and, then further filter the list by each letter of the last name, thus I could switch between clients and colleagues (2 different views), and then narrow the results (using a seperate view selector) to all people who's last name begins with each letter, thus I could very quickly sort through and find a contact within such a long list Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125725
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    - Importing Data From a Works DB File into Something Usable I am running Office XP and The 2003 platform. Does anyone know of a way to convert a wbd file to something usable here? Thanks! Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125724
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    - Adding a journal entry to several contacts. How do I center a journal entry into several contacts at the same time. I have changed my contacts to show only the contacts within the same catagry, but I haven't been able to post the same journal entry to all the contacts. It only posts the journal entry into the first contact. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125723
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    - Using Outlook Forms I have created a custom form and it is saved in C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Template\{filename}.oft...how do I set this to the default form so that all contacts pull to this form? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125722
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    - Delete Duplicate Contacts Folder I am using Outlook 2007. Because of restoration "issues" after a system crash, I now have two Contact folders. I want to delete one of them, but "delete folder" is not an option when i right-click on that folder. What can I do? If I can't delete it, how can i get the contact folder that I want to work with to be the "default" folder, the one that is searched when i start an email message, for example? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125721
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    - Contact Distribution List - split to: and cc: fields Is there any way in Outlook (2003) to create a distribution list and have certain names go into the TO: field and others go in the CC: field? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125720
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    - Business Card Settings in Contacts I'd like to change the info shown in existing contacts all at once. Also, I'd like to change the default settings for new business cards, so I don't have to go through this again. I'm not talking about custom business cards, I'm speaking of the ones that are automatically included in all Contacts Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125718
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    - Contacts properties - greyed out I'm using Outlook 2003 Basic Edition on many computers in company. We have one additional .pst file with fresh contacts - It's copied on every PC with simple script during startup. This .pst file is connected to Outlook on each computer. It worked fine but one day "properties" option of addres book changed to gray and I cannot select it. It's strange that I still can view these contacts and get new if file on server is updated. Another problem is that this address book was shown as an e-mail address book but stopped when I "properties" option gone grey. As you know to Mark your contact folder for use with your address book I must enter properties but I can't. Help me please Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125717
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    - Move contacts data file to outlook contacts I have a documents/Contacts file. How do I move the data to my Outlook Contacts? Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125716
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    - Cancelling a meeting requests I have sent meeting resquest from a Distribution List, I have received reply from invitee. How to I cancel the meeting request for just one invitee. Only that specific invitee should receive a cancellation note. Without updating the other invitees. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125714
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    - How do I look at 2 or more contacts at the same time? How do I look at 2 or more contacts at the same time? Right now I'm clicking back and forth like crazy until it seems to randomly all stay up so I can finally compare them side by side. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125709
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    - Connecting to Global Address Book Hi, I have just inherited setting up new employees with email. I managed to get this person into the system, but when she opens her Outlook, there is no Global Address List to choose from the drop down for contacts. How do you connect to this? It isn't shown in the list. How do you import this from the server? Thanks Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125708
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    - Adding Contact info from a Global List to another persons contact I use Outlook 2003. I have a contact list and I have permission to edit my bosses contact list. I am trying to add some contacts from a Global Address List to my bosses contacts, but it adds them to mine instead. I have clicked on my bosses name under "Other Contacts" then I go to the address book, global address list, I select a name from the list, open the properties click on the Add to Contacts button and the contact goes into my contact list instead of my bosses. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125707
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    - Outlook 2007: Missing "Contacts" folder after power failure A friend has a computer with Windows XP and Office 2007. Recently they had a power failure where the computer was on at the time. When the power came back, they had some difficulty logging back into the computer but they eventually got in. They have recovered most of their email content however there are two users/profiles on the machine and both email profiles are missing their respective "contacts" folder along with the content. I ran a search for the .pst files on the hard drives and could not find the files. Could the power outage have caused partial data loss? This hgardly seems likely as both contacts folders are gone but it seems as though those are the only folders that are missing. Thanks in advance for your help! Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125706
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    - How do I import contacts into Outlook Web Access? I want to import my contacts from outlook on my system into Outlook Web Access. Tag: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? Tag: 125704
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The "Display As" field in Outlook 2003 Contacts often independently reverts
from the display name entered, to simply the email address.

Has anyone else had this problem with Outlook 2003 Contacts.

How do I stop this unwanted change?

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Re: How do I stop unwanted changes to the Outlook "Display As" field? by Russ

Russ
Sat Jun 14 12:29:33 PDT 2008

You can't control it. Delete the Contact Record and recreate it from scratch
so it will use Outlook 2003's default setting for Email Display As...
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"TG" <TG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:606403D5-188E-4AAF-A7B3-E80A4BB20082@microsoft.com...
> The "Display As" field in Outlook 2003 Contacts often independently
> reverts
> from the display name entered, to simply the email address.
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> Has anyone else had this problem with Outlook 2003 Contacts.
>
> How do I stop this unwanted change?
>
> Thanks
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