Hi There,

I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the
old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to
remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Drag the contact from the Contacts folder to your Inbox folder. The message
that opens will contain the contact information in the body of the message.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"Wes" wrote in message
...
How do you paste or insert contact info into an email or doc as text
instead
of as a vCard? In previous versions (2002 for example) you could use the
Insert - Item command, select your contact and the Text Only option and
it
would insert it. Now in Outlook 2003 SP1 the Text Only option is disabled
(greyed out). Thus you get stuck with a vCard attachment. Any
suggestions

I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"J. Pierre Moatti" J. Pierre wrote in message ...
Hi There,

I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the
old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to
remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you.

Hi Sue,

Actually, my process was as follows:

- While in Contacts to Ctrl-C a contact object or more.
- When back in my email message content, I would CTRL-V the copied contact
objects.

The object would then appear as a .msg attachement. Under Office XP and
2000, I seem to recall that this action would still yeild a .vcf attachment.
Do you have any ideas on this? I sort of caught a MS KB on this at:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=h...083%2fen-us%2f

I am still reading this. Thank you.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"J. Pierre Moatti" J. Pierre wrote in message ...
Hi There,

I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the
old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to
remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you.

I guess to be more specific, I am referring to tthe capabilities of OLE for
vCards. Thank you and I very much appreciate your work.

JP

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"J. Pierre Moatti" J. Pierre wrote in message ...
Hi There,

I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the
old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to
remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you.

That copy/paste process has always inserted an embedded item, which the receiving user would have seen as an .msg file. If you want to send an actual vCard .vcf file, you'll need to use the Forward as vCard or File | Save As command.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"J. Pierre Moatti" wrote in message ...
Hi Sue,

Actually, my process was as follows:

- While in Contacts to Ctrl-C a contact object or more.
- When back in my email message content, I would CTRL-V the copied contact
objects.

The object would then appear as a .msg attachement. Under Office XP and
2000, I seem to recall that this action would still yeild a .vcf attachment.
Do you have any ideas on this? I sort of caught a MS KB on this at:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=h...083%2fen-us%2f

I am still reading this. Thank you.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment.


"J. Pierre Moatti" J. Pierre wrote in message ...
Hi There,

I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the
old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to
remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you.

Ms. Sue:
I have used Outlook 2000 for years, now I am on 2003 and want to be able to
insert a contact as an item in to a email as "TEXT" and show the "NOTES AREA"
of a contact. It does on 2000, not on 2003 though. Basically, anywhere there
was data in a Contact it would put it in as text into a email.
Barry HEston

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

That copy/paste process has always inserted an embedded item, which the receiving user would have seen as an .msg file. If you want to send an actual vCard .vcf file, you'll need to use the Forward as vCard or File | Save As command.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"J. Pierre Moatti" wrote in message ...
Hi Sue,

Actually, my process was as follows:

- While in Contacts to Ctrl-C a contact object or more.
- When back in my email message content, I would CTRL-V the copied contact
objects.

The object would then appear as a .msg attachement. Under Office XP and
2000, I seem to recall that this action would still yeild a .vcf attachment.
Do you have any ideas on this? I sort of caught a MS KB on this at:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=h...083%2fen-us%2f

I am still reading this. Thank you.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment.


"J. Pierre Moatti" J. Pierre wrote in message ...
Hi There,

I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the
old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to
remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you.