Not at all, if you understand the Business Card feature, which apparently was designed expressly to include only a small subset of the contact fields, largely to protect privacy.

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"jimmuh" wrote in message ...
Thank you, Sue, for your help. Your way is MUCH BETTAH!

Truly, I appreciate your acumen.

But -- doesn't this seem just a wee bit counterintuitive? It seems the
natural way to go, I think, to those of us used to doing this in previous
versions of Outlook. At least it was the most immediately accessible to a guy
who was used to doing things "the old way".

8-)

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

These are your own contacts, for your own use? In other words, you're not sending a meeting or task request? If that's the case, the easiest solution is to display the Contacts box for linking items. To turn it on -- Tools | Options | Contact Options | Show Contact Activity Information on All Forms. Once you do that, you can click the Contacts box at the bottom of the item or just type in a name to make a link to the contact record. Much better than inserting, because you always have the current information.

The Insert | Business Card command won't insert notes. The alternative is to save a contact as a vCard .vcf file and attach that file.


"jimmuh" wrote in message ...


Okay, sorry. Now some actually useful information. Office 2007 Professional
with OneNote 2007 and Visio Pro 2007 also installed under Vista Business RTM.

With the Task or Appointment opened in its own window I click on the Insert
selection above the ribbon and then choose Business Card from the list. From
there it's just a matter of selecting the contact I want to use.

Title pretty much says it all. I often have comments in the Contact's "Notes"
section that are pertinent to being able to get hold of the contact -- like
hours of business and so on. But when I attach a contact as a business card
to a Task or an Appointment in Outlook those notes are not brought forward.
So, I open the Task / Appointment, double-click on the business card, and I
get all of the contact information -- EXCEPT for the data in that Notes field!

Bug?