Really??? A thread from 2006????????

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After furious head scratching, Tish asked:

| Milly - I think you may be missing the point of this issue for users.
| It's all too easy to accidentally choose the Fax # instead of the
| e-mail when you are rushing to send out an e-mail. The Address Book
| is used mainly for e-mailing by most users - so having the Fax number
| be on the pick list when you go to send an e-mail is problematic for
| those users.
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| I assumed that it might be possible to send an Outlook message via
| FAX to someone on that pick list, but never saw any instructions on
| how to do it. I'll look that one up. Thanks for advising it's
| possible.
|
| Today my problem is that when I exported my Contacts to Excel and then
| reimported them to another workstation, the e-mails don't show up at
| all on the pick list, only the fax numbers show up. If I go to the
| Contacts group and open the individual contact, the e-mail address is
| there ....but that's much more time consuming than selecting from the
| 'pick list'. I suspect that the export/import wound up with the
| e-mails in the wrong column. Does anyone know which column e-mail
| address should be in for successful import? Thanks for all the help
| you guys give!
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|| It already allows you to fax to people with an electronic address.
|| I suspect what you really mean is that Microsoft should fix the
|| cosmetic "display" to fit what you want, correct? In all other
|| aspects, the program performs as expected and required, it is just
|| that you don't care for the display.
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|| After furious head scratching, asked:
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||| Thanks, Milly. I didn't know that.
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||| So what MS really needs to do is fix the Mail program so that it
||| will fax messages to people you select from the list.
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||| Otherwise, what is the value of having that "virtual" view of valid
||| electronic addresses?
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||| On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:44:46 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| wrote:
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|||| There is nothing to "fix." The Outlook Address Book is a "virtual"
|||| view of your contacts with valid electronic addresses, which means
|||| both email and fax.
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|||| After furious head scratching, Anonymous asked:
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||||| Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.
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||||| This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed
||||| it?
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||||| On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
||||| wrote:
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|||||| Hello Riggs,
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|||||| export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all
|||||| faxnumbers (for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import
|||||| them again to outlook.