Thanks so much. My eccentric reason for making such links is that I
follow this method of tracking tasks referred to as "contacts as
projects", taking advantage of outlook's contacts functionality to keep
a project list as a contact folder.

Very helpful and prompt response.

Thanks so much.

Mike

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
The Contacts field on email messages has always been located on the separate Options dialog. You can open that dialog from the Options tab, More Options group by clicking the small arrow at lower right. If you use that dialog often, customize the Quick Access Toolbar to add it.

Note, though, that one reason the Contacts box is buried for messages may be most users rarely a need to use it. Email messages are automatically linked to contacts through the email addresses of sender and recipients.

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"mikem" wrote in message ups.com...
I agree that a different default behavior would be preferred, but I
think it's worse than that. At least for me, even with that "Show
Contact Activity" turned on, the contact box doesn't appear on emails,
nor does it appear when you use a flag to put the email into your
"to-do" list. If you drag the email over the tasks button, you get a
task with a contact box at the bottom, but not if you just use the
nifty linking feature that works through the flag. At least that is
true on my installation. I can't find any way to link an email to a
contact, period! Unless, of course, one uses the "outlook business
relations manager" thing.