Combine Contacts
 

Hello,
In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007
contacts area where I already had my email address list.
At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple
records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't
remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records.

I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into
Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records.
For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to
merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts
there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"!

Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the
Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer.

Many thanks.

Combine Contacts
 

Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been
using a third-party tool. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54




"Hingeless" wrote:

Hello,
In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007
contacts area where I already had my email address list.
At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple
records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't
remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records.

I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into
Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records.
For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to
merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts
there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"!

Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the
Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer.

Many thanks.

Combine Contacts
 

Hello Sue,
many thanks for your answer.
I have no recollection of having downloaded extra, third-party software for
Outlook except for Outlook Connector (which doesn't mean that I didn't
download any others!).
Is there a list anywhere, where I can see what third-party software is/has
been integrated with Outlook?
Many thanks!

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been
using a third-party tool. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54




"Hingeless" wrote:

Hello,
In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007
contacts area where I already had my email address list.
At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple
records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't
remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records.

I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into
Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records.
For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to
merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts
there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"!

Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the
Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer.

Many thanks.

Combine Contacts
 

Tools | Trust Center | Add-ins
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54




"Hingeless" wrote:

Hello Sue,
many thanks for your answer.
I have no recollection of having downloaded extra, third-party software for
Outlook except for Outlook Connector (which doesn't mean that I didn't
download any others!).
Is there a list anywhere, where I can see what third-party software is/has
been integrated with Outlook?
Many thanks!

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been
using a third-party tool. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions.


"Hingeless" wrote:

Hello,
In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007
contacts area where I already had my email address list.
At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple
records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't
remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records.

I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into
Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records.
For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to
merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts
there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"!

Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the
Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer.

Many thanks.

Combine Contacts
 

Hello Sue,
Many thanks for all your help.
It is greatly appreciated.

I did in fact find what I had used before - it was in Windows Live Hotmail
though!
There is a "Merge" button there.
And since I have Outlook Connector, the contacts from Outlook are sync-ed
with the hotmail on Windows Live Hotmail - and that is how I managed to merge
records in the Outlook Contacts.
It's a bit fiddly from the point of view that I have both programs open, but
since they sync regularly, it really works quite well.

Once again, many thanks for all your help.
Best wishes

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Tools | Trust Center | Add-ins
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54




"Hingeless" wrote:

Hello Sue,
many thanks for your answer.
I have no recollection of having downloaded extra, third-party software for
Outlook except for Outlook Connector (which doesn't mean that I didn't
download any others!).
Is there a list anywhere, where I can see what third-party software is/has
been integrated with Outlook?
Many thanks!

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Given that Outlook has no such button or menu command, you must have been
using a third-party tool. See
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp#dupes for possible solutions.


"Hingeless" wrote:

Hello,
In August I imported an Access list of addresses into my Outlook 2007
contacts area where I already had my email address list.
At the time I was able to combine contact records by selecting multiple
records in Contacts and clicking either on a menu option or a button (I can't
remember) which gave me the possibility of merging the selected records.

I now have another list of contacts addresses that I have imported into
Outlook, but I just can't find the option to merge contact records.
For a while I thought that maybe I was dreaming that I had been able to
merge contact records, but indeed, in the Notes section of some contacts
there is the message: "Information from contacts you merged on 03/08/2008"!

Can anyone help me to remember where this option is at all? I have tried the
Outlook help files and google, but have not found an answer.

Many thanks.