Address book listing fax numbers as email.

Does anyone know how I can prevent the address book from listing duplicate
contacts, right now every contact I have appears twice in the address book,
one with an e-mail and one with a fax number.

Outlook considers fax numbers to be valid electronic addresses, since there
are many client- and server-based components that can use such addresses.

One method to hide fax numbers from the address book is to prefix the fax
number with one or more letters (maybe B for business fax, H for home, O for
other). If the fax number begins with a letter, Outlook won't show it in the
address book.

There are a couple of utilities that can help you hide fax numbers from the
address book. See http://www.rsoutlook.com/us/rshifa.htm and
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook_Solutions.htm (Hide Fax Numbers).

Another way to avoid having fax numbers appear in the address book is
simply not to enter data in the fax fields. Put fax numbers in some other
(non-phone) fields.

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
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Does anyone know how I can prevent the address book from listing duplicate
contacts, right now every contact I have appears twice in the address
book,
one with an e-mail and one with a fax number.