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Outlook 2000 contacts formatting when importing
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I'm working on a project where users are migrating from a standard mobile to a Blackberry device. As part of the migration, contact details stored on the mobile are extracted to a tab delimited file for import into Outlook 2000. There are 2 issues with the import of data into Outlook: - The default setting in Outlook is to display a contact name as First Name Last Name. On import from the above file, this formatting is not applied. - Outlook is formatting phone numbers which become unusable on the Blackberry because of the () and - that Outlook inserts. Is there any way to: - Force outlook to format the name correctly for all contacts without editing each record? - How can the phone number be updated without Outlook overriding this and making the number unusable again? It looks like part of the problem is that Outlook is trying to identify area codes. This is fine for local numbers (Sydney/02) but it is also stripping mobile numbers. Thanks, Chris |
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Outlook 2000 contacts formatting when importing
Formatting of the File As.. field will not apply to imported Contacts. You
can run code to reset them afterwards if you want. Masking of phone numbers in Outlook is hard coded and cannot be overridden. Sometimes you can prevent automatic masking by spoofing a null dialing location, but most OS won't let you do that. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I'm working on a project where users are migrating from a standard mobile to a Blackberry device. As part of the migration, contact details stored on the mobile are extracted to a tab delimited file for import into Outlook 2000. There are 2 issues with the import of data into Outlook: - The default setting in Outlook is to display a contact name as First Name Last Name. On import from the above file, this formatting is not applied. - Outlook is formatting phone numbers which become unusable on the Blackberry because of the () and - that Outlook inserts. Is there any way to: - Force outlook to format the name correctly for all contacts without editing each record? - How can the phone number be updated without Outlook overriding this and making the number unusable again? It looks like part of the problem is that Outlook is trying to identify area codes. This is fine for local numbers (Sydney/02) but it is also stripping mobile numbers. Thanks, Chris |
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Outlook 2000 contacts formatting when importing
Formatting of the File As.. field will not apply to imported Contacts. You
can run code to reset them afterwards if you want. Hi, are you able to point to where I can obtain this code? Thanks |
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Outlook 2000 contacts formatting when importing
Sure.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002 -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote in message ups.com... Formatting of the File As.. field will not apply to imported Contacts. You can run code to reset them afterwards if you want. Hi, are you able to point to where I can obtain this code? Thanks |
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