Your thank you means it doesn't work right? This questions has been asked
multiple times. The MVP don't have any problems, but everyone else is unable
to get away from the name only format. I have pasted into a text editor and
it gets pasted as names only. I believe that you have to have the names in
your contact database in order for these tips to work. Nobody has been able
to explain how to solve the conversion problem.
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Bryant


"George" wrote:

Thank you.

"Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook]" wrote:

No. The issue is with the format of the addresses as they actually appear in
the field from which you are copying. If they are in Outlook 2003's default
format (which includes both the familiar name and the email address), this
method works, since the address service can store both a name and an address
in the DL. If they are in the format of older versions or other email
software (which use only the familiar name) then the method does not work,
since the address book service sees no address to store.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"George" wrote in message
...
I saw the request for clarified address format and version,
but I did not recognize the link as such.
Sorry.

Now, I've reviewed the link and instructions but it did not work.

In Outlook 2003, when I copy a name like:
Valentine, Russ
from the To: box of a message, and paste it anywhere, all that shows
anywhere I paste it is the "Valentine Russ" part; the
part appears to have been stripped-off during
the
copy action, as one can verify using Clipbrd.exe.

My conjecture is that this behavior is some sort of security feature of
2003, intended to stop spammers. Do you think so?

Sorry to beat a dead horse.


"Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook]" wrote:

Did you try the instructions I already posted?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"George" wrote in message
...
Outlook version is 2003.
The addresses are simply in the To: part of the message they sent.
The problem with copying them is this:
If you Reply All, and then copy the names to the clip board, the
addresses
of the form:
Last, First
appear in the clipboard (and as Pasted) without the

part. Outlook seems to be too smart (from security perspecitve) to let
you
paste email addresses not already in your Contacts List.

To see what I'm talking about, try this, please:
1) Create a dummy message To: ;

2) Right click any one of these addresses and look at the E-Mail
Properties.
3) Select and Drag these three names into a Contacts folder, as advised
by
Help.
4) Note that it copies the names into the comments section of a single
Contact instead of creating three contacts.
5) Note: You can right-click *each*, and create a beautiful contact
record
for them, but I thought there might be a way to do that for all
selected,
as
implied by Help.

Question (reiterated):
Is there a way to build a Contacts list from a To: list?

Thanks for your help.
George



"Russ Valentine [MVP Outlook]" wrote:

Answer depends on the format of these addresses and your Outlook
version,
neither of which you posted.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041105.htm
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"George" wrote in message
...
Somebody sent a message to a bunch of folks including me. I'm
trying
to
create a distribution list of the folks on the list for future use.
(I
can
forward or reply all and everyone resolves.) Some of folks are in
my
global
contacts list; some are in local Outlook Contacts list;
but some show as E-mail Properties - Display name; E-Mail address.

I thought there would be an easy way to drag everyone into a
distribution
list, but the folks that look like this do not resolve:
Last, First
If I copy the names they are not visible in ClipBook viewer.

Should I just right-click on each and add them to contacts?
Or is there an easier way?
Help indicated a very simple Drag/Drop idea, but it did not resolve
they
new
folks.

Thanks in advance for your help.
George