Greybeard wrote:

I am sorry this is so hard for you but I am in the Phone list view to
which I HAVE ADDED THE E-MAIL FIELD. As I have said it does not show
the E-mail address.

Does for me.

Nor does the Address Card view or the Detailed Address Card view or
any other view to which "E-mail" is added.

If there is a value in the E-mail field, the Address Card views should show
them. Even if the addresses aren't resolved, the Address Card views both
show the values in the E-mail field.

So I ask again, Why does the E-mail field on any view of Contacts not
show the E-mail address that is clearly in the Contact?

Does this happen even if you create a new contact record from scratch?
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

No Brian, it works for new entries. They show the actual E-mail address.

Most of my entries come from the contact list I exported from Windows Mail
that came with this machine. Due to its many limitations compared to Outlook
Express I got Outlook and installed it. I got the mail file transferred after
a few tries and the contacts seemed to go smoothly. Until that is I tried to
set up a list view of my contacts and found that the E-mail field did not
show the e-mail address. Nor does it show the e-mail address in any other
view. (Now that I have figured out what a view is.)

If my situation is different from everyone else I still would not like to
have to reenter all my contacts to get the e-mail address to show. Is there
any other way to correct the situation?

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Greybeard wrote:

I am sorry this is so hard for you but I am in the Phone list view to
which I HAVE ADDED THE E-MAIL FIELD. As I have said it does not show
the E-mail address.

Does for me.

Nor does the Address Card view or the Detailed Address Card view or
any other view to which "E-mail" is added.

If there is a value in the E-mail field, the Address Card views should show
them. Even if the addresses aren't resolved, the Address Card views both
show the values in the E-mail field.

So I ask again, Why does the E-mail field on any view of Contacts not
show the E-mail address that is clearly in the Contact?

Does this happen even if you create a new contact record from scratch?
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Greybeard wrote:

No Brian, it works for new entries. They show the actual E-mail
address.

Most of my entries come from the contact list I exported from Windows
Mail that came with this machine.

How did you do this exporting and why would you? Outlook is perfectly
capable of importing contacts directly from WIndows Mail with little or no
loss of information.

Personally, I'd empty the contacts folder and transfer them again correctly.
The problem may be how you transferred them from OE to Windows Mail or from
Windows Mail to Outlook, but there isn't enough detail in the thread to
decide, considering this seems to be the first time you mentioned "import"
at all. Importing always adds "flavor" to a problem.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Brian, you were right, something happened in the two transfers, first from my
old machine with Outlook Express on XP to my new machine with Vista (ugh) and
Windows Mail (also ugh) and then from Win Mail to Outlook. So after I got
back from having the dermatologist cut a bad spot out of my arm yesterday I
went back to Outlook Express and got a clean copy of the address book and it
displays just fine.

Now I am working on getting the rest of Outlook tuned to my preferrences. I
am so old that I miss having a manual so I may go buy one.

Thanks for the help.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Greybeard wrote:

No Brian, it works for new entries. They show the actual E-mail
address.

Most of my entries come from the contact list I exported from Windows
Mail that came with this machine.

How did you do this exporting and why would you? Outlook is perfectly
capable of importing contacts directly from WIndows Mail with little or no
loss of information.

Personally, I'd empty the contacts folder and transfer them again correctly.
The problem may be how you transferred them from OE to Windows Mail or from
Windows Mail to Outlook, but there isn't enough detail in the thread to
decide, considering this seems to be the first time you mentioned "import"
at all. Importing always adds "flavor" to a problem.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Greybeard wrote:

Brian, you were right, something happened in the two transfers, first
from my old machine with Outlook Express on XP to my new machine with
Vista (ugh) and Windows Mail (also ugh)

If you don't like Vista, why not install XP on the new machine? If you have
a retail copy, it's legal to remove it from one machine and install on
another.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]