I use Contacts for my address book. Some Contacts have fax numbers as well
as email addresses. This causes two entries to appear when addressing an
email message. One address is the valid email address and the other is the
fax number. I do not want to send email to a fax. How do I stop fax numbers
from appearing as email addresses?

Thanks.

Hello Riggs,

export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all faxnumbers
(for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import them again to
outlook.

--
Peter Marchert
[EDV-Service Marchert]
Homepage: http://www.marchert.de
Excel- und Outlookprogrammierung


RiggsJW schrieb:

I use Contacts for my address book. Some Contacts have fax numbers as well
as email addresses. This causes two entries to appear when addressing an
email message. One address is the valid email address and the other is the
fax number. I do not want to send email to a fax. How do I stop fax numbers
from appearing as email addresses?

Thanks.

Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.

This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed it?

On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
wrote:

Hello Riggs,

export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all faxnumbers
(for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import them again to
outlook.

I don`t know why.

There is a tool from Ken Slovak to change the telephone numbers, please
see: http://www.slovaktech.com/phonechanger.htm. I don`t know if this
tools hides faxnumbers, too.

There is another way to hide faxnumbers: If you have exported your
contacts to excel change the header from the "Business faxnumber" to
another telephone field which is not in use.

--
Peter Marchert
[EDV-Service Marchert]
Homepage: http://www.marchert.de
Excel- und Outlookprogrammierung

Anonymous schrieb:

Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.

This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed it?

On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
wrote:

Hello Riggs,

export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all faxnumbers
(for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import them again to
outlook.

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.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Anonymous asked:

| Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.
|
| This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed it?
|
| On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
| wrote:
|
|| Hello Riggs,
||
|| export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all
|| faxnumbers (for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import them
|| again to outlook.

There is nothing to "fix."

Yes, thats right, but an option to hide the faxnumbers in the
addressbook would be fine.

Peter


Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] schrieb:

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.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Anonymous asked:

| Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.
|
| This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed it?
|
| On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
| wrote:
|
|| Hello Riggs,
||
|| export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all
|| faxnumbers (for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import them
|| again to outlook.

Thanks, Milly. I didn't know that.

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.

Otherwise, what is the value of having that "virtual" view of valid
electronic addresses?

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:44:46 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote:

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.

--?
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Anonymous asked:

| Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.
|
| This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed it?
|
| On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
| wrote:
|
|| Hello Riggs,
||
|| export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all
|| faxnumbers (for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import them
|| again to outlook.

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.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, asked:

| Thanks, Milly. I didn't know that.
|
| 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.
|
| Otherwise, what is the value of having that "virtual" view of valid
| electronic addresses?
|
| On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:44:46 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote:
|
|| 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.
||
|| --?
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Anonymous asked:
||
||| Thanks for the great kludge, Peter.
|||
||| This has been a problem for many many years. Why hasn't MS fixed
||| it?
|||
||| On 19 Oct 2006 12:37:32 -0700, "Peter Marchert"
||| wrote:
|||
|||| Hello Riggs,
||||
|||| export your contacts to excel and add some characters to all
|||| faxnumbers (for example "fax: +49 (911) 12345678"). Then import
|||| them again to outlook.