thanks for that, I just checked, a few contacts have no email address at all
show up among the 70, and also, a few contacts have valid email address
didn't show up among the 26. that puzzled me. any idea please.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Tommy wrote:

I have Windows XP SP2 with Office 2003 SP2. when I compose email,
click To, the select name dialog box shows up, Contacts is my first
choice for address, but not all of my contacts showing up in this
dialog box, about 70 out of 96 show up. when I view the Contacts
folder, I have 96 items show up, which is more than the Show Names
dialog box. Any one can help please figure out how to make the
Select name dialog box show all 96 items instaed of 70? thanks in
advance.

In addition to what Russ said, if the 26 contacts that don't show up do have
email addresses defined, then I suspect they were imported and, hence, the
mail address is not properly resolved.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]