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Old June 20th, 2005, 01:58 AM
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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For the record, reread my posts. One of my other suggestions was to look at
Journaling since it was the only feature that had an icon like you describe.
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"Kevin Carlson" wrote in message
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AND THAT'S A WRAP. You were right across the plate on the Journal thing.

Here's what happened. I've always kept journalling turned on. But I also
look at my contacts list in the 'phone list' view AND I remove many of the
unecessary columns (attachment, category, flag status, etc) just to make
the
page a little cleaner. So I got used to not seeing the journal status of
my
contacts.

Now, one of MVP Russ' suggestion was to run Outlook from the command line
with the ' / cleanvew' switch. This puts all of the normal columns back
up
on the phone list and resets all of the views to factory status. Well,
when
I look at the 'Journal' column in the refreshed phone list, there is a
check
box. If I check the check box, the Contact icon changes, adding the
circle
thingin (clock or Outlook icon, depending on your taste in these things).

So, PROBLEM SOLVED and thank you very much, ProfDD.

By the way, when you turn journalling off, get ready to take a coffee
break.
It takes a while. I also use Outlook Live!, so the whole thing takes
about
ten minutes.
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Kevin Carlson


"ProfDD" wrote:

I am not sure that I am answering your question, nor that the question
is even fundamentally worth answering.

There were three: the ordinary contacts "rolodex" icon, the
distribution lists icon, and a rolodex icon with a little circle and a
yellow line. I creating an "Icon" view to inspect the icons in detail
and sorted by icon to see if I could reason about any common
characteristics. The little circle logo that I observed was a clock.
The yellow line was a little yellow pencil. A timed pencil. Hmmmm.

I then created a table view with just the icon, flag status, follow-up
status, and journal, sorted by icon. That revealed that the clock and
pencil icon corresponded to the contacts that had Journal turned on
(from an experiment I had initiated).

If we are talking about the same icon, then your problem is solved. If
not, the method I used for inspecting the icon and sorting by
interesting (neglected ?) fields might help. I may turn off
journalling and get a little performance boost, so it wasn't all wasted.




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Old June 20th, 2005, 02:29 AM
ProfDD
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Cool. Thanks for the update and the advice on Journalling. Did you
ever get much out of Journalling ? BTW, I neglected to mention that my
version is Outlook 2002/XP. That MIGHT account for some differences in
the appearance of the Icon.

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Old June 20th, 2005, 02:42 AM
ProfDD
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No offence intended, Russ. I just got curious and my simple-minded
investigative approach seemed a good fit with the problem and Mr.
Carlson.

By the way, how would I find out what all the possible values of the
Icon field would be for each type of Outlook item ? I was looking at a
reference that seemed to say that assigning an icon when adding a new
type of Journal entry required changing the registry. Is that true, as
far as you know ? Where is a good place to get info on the icons and
changing them ?

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Old June 20th, 2005, 03:03 AM
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Don't know. My idea of searching for *.ico files in the Office folders seems
like it would suffice.
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No offence intended, Russ. I just got curious and my simple-minded
investigative approach seemed a good fit with the problem and Mr.
Carlson.

By the way, how would I find out what all the possible values of the
Icon field would be for each type of Outlook item ? I was looking at a
reference that seemed to say that assigning an icon when adding a new
type of Journal entry required changing the registry. Is that true, as
far as you know ? Where is a good place to get info on the icons and
changing them ?



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Old July 8th, 2006, 09:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Brcobrem
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Hi All (again),

Here's what I did to get my Contact icon back to the normal one:

1) Open up one of the contacts that have the "yellow paper with Push pin"
icon.
2) Tools Forms Design This Form.
3) Click on the unwanted "Financial Information" tab to bring that page on
top.
4) Edit Select All, then Edit Clear.
5) Form Rename Page . I renamed it to "(P.2)" without the quote marks.
Btw, the ""Financial Information" page had been designed on Outlook's default
tab number two; hence the rename to "(P.2)".

Hope this helps someone some rainy day.

Regards,
Brcobrem



"Kevin Carlson" wrote:

In my contacts folder (Outlook 2003) I have contacts with 2 different icons.
One type is the standard icon that looks like a little business card. The
other type is the same little business card, but also has a little circle in
the lowerright corner of the business card ... kind of resembles a little
clock. I don't use any special forms (at least not that I know of). Most of
my contacts have the little 'clock' in the lower right corner of the business
card. The contacts without the 'clock' are my more recent additions.
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Kevin Carlson

 




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