What did you hope to achieve with this process?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, KayeC asked:

| I was in contacts. I clicked on "customize current view", I then
| clicked on fields and not finding "email" I clicked on new field and
| added it. Once it was in available fields I clicked the "add" button.
|
| "Karl Timmermans" wrote:
|
|| Could you perhaps be a little more specific in terms of what you
|| actually did "added the email field" to contacts. Even if
|| referring to a custom form, did you not select the standard Email
|| field(s) from the Field Chooser versus creating a new user-defined
|| field in which case any data already in any of the 3 email address
|| fields will still be there. Outlook processes existing email fields
|| according to predefined processing rules (i.e. resolving the email
|| address, populating Email Display As etc) which you cannot do by
|| simply adding a new field "intended" to be used as an Email Address
|| field.
||
|| Karl
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||
||
|| "KayeC" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Using Outlook 07. In contacts I have added the email field. Is
||| there an easy
||| way to get all my contacts email info in the field rather than
||| adding it one
||| at a time?
||| Thank you, KayeC