Updating VCards (or contacts) by email

We are using Outlook Contacts in a sales environment in our sales managers
office. We have different folders for each sales person, with contact info
for their clients under each. That makes it easy to move clients around
between territories.

We would LIKE each sales person in the field to be able to enter daily sales
information in the data box at the bottom of the page and on a weekly basis
email their vcards back to the office to update the master lists.

In experimenting with this, when we attempt to copy over the emailed Vcard
to the contact folder, we get the message that we will lose the data in the
bottom text field, unless we make a new file. This would leave us with
multiple files and eventually that will be trouble.

Is there any way around this, either through the existing software or from
an add on?

Thanks!

Outlook 2007 is the first version capable of doing what you want without custom programming.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Edward Owen" wrote in message ...
We are using Outlook Contacts in a sales environment in our sales managers
office. We have different folders for each sales person, with contact info
for their clients under each. That makes it easy to move clients around
between territories.

We would LIKE each sales person in the field to be able to enter daily sales
information in the data box at the bottom of the page and on a weekly basis
email their vcards back to the office to update the master lists.

In experimenting with this, when we attempt to copy over the emailed Vcard
to the contact folder, we get the message that we will lose the data in the
bottom text field, unless we make a new file. This would leave us with
multiple files and eventually that will be trouble.

Is there any way around this, either through the existing software or from
an add on?

Thanks!

Thanks!


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Outlook 2007 is the first version capable of doing what you want without
custom programming.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Edward Owen" wrote in message
...
We are using Outlook Contacts in a sales environment in our sales managers
office. We have different folders for each sales person, with contact
info
for their clients under each. That makes it easy to move clients around
between territories.

We would LIKE each sales person in the field to be able to enter daily
sales
information in the data box at the bottom of the page and on a weekly
basis
email their vcards back to the office to update the master lists.

In experimenting with this, when we attempt to copy over the emailed Vcard
to the contact folder, we get the message that we will lose the data in
the
bottom text field, unless we make a new file. This would leave us with
multiple files and eventually that will be trouble.

Is there any way around this, either through the existing software or from
an add on?

Thanks!