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Old August 7th, 2007, 09:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Whyvon
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"Whyvon" wrote:

I would like to have Outlook display my contacts by their name rather than
their e-mail address. Is there a way to automatically set the full name as
the display name, or do I have to manually enter the display name each time.

HELLO! Has there been a fix to this yet? Don't want to manually change
thousands of names. thank you!

And to add on to my question above -

Someone mentioned earlier that the "Display as" field is of little
consequence. What is this field for then? I thought it was the field that
"displays" to the sender when you use that email address. Is that incorrect?


Thank you!
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Old August 8th, 2007, 03:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Brian Tillman
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Default Contact Display Names

Whyvon wrote:

Someone mentioned earlier that the "Display as" field is of little
consequence. What is this field for then? I thought it was the
field that "displays" to the sender when you use that email address.
Is that incorrect?


The Display As field is what Outlook puts in the recpient field when the
sender resolves an address. It's what the sender wishes to see in the
recipient field for that contact when composing a message. It's just a
sender-friendly text string that doesn't affect what address Outlook uses
for the actual delivery address.
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Old August 8th, 2007, 06:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Whyvon
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Thank you! What do you mean "resolves an address"?

Also - what determines then - how the recipients name appears in the "TO"
field when they receive the message?

Whyvon

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

The Display As field is what Outlook puts in the recpient field when the
sender resolves an address. It's what the sender wishes to see in the
recipient field for that contact when composing a message. It's just a
sender-friendly text string that doesn't affect what address Outlook uses
for the actual delivery address.
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Brian Tillman


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Old August 8th, 2007, 08:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Brian Tillman
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Default Contact Display Names

Whyvon wrote:

Thank you! What do you mean "resolves an address"?


When Outlook uses the Address Book service to obtain the mail address of a
recipient from your Contacts folder, it's called "resolving" the entry.
Outlook signals to you that the entry is resolved (i.e., an address was
found) by underlining the entry in the recipent field.

Also - what determines then - how the recipients name appears in the
"TO" field when they receive the message?


A combination of what you include and what the recipient's client wishes to
show.

Let's keep this to a single thread from this point on, shall we?
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Old August 29th, 2007, 11:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
OzunaJ
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Default Contact Display Names

Stirling:

I apologize if my "posting" is not correctly done but this is my first time
& I don't kow what a string is. I wanted to know if you have found a
solution to this problem. My entire office just upgraded to Microsoft Office
Outlook 2003 and this is a big deal. We have thousands of contacts and we
are used to sorting by contact name which you probably know is not the same
as sorting by email address.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

"Stirling" wrote:

I would like to have Outlook display my contacts by their name rather than
their e-mail address. Is there a way to automatically set the full name as
the display name, or do I have to manually enter the display name each time.

 




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