It's the same thing when trying to connect a contact to an item. The list is
not customizable. I know some people by their first name for example but my
"file as" is last, first and sometimes I use the company name first in file
as. It can be frustrating to find items for that reason alone, but
additionally if you have many different contacts with the same "file as" (the
difference is the address) and you create a new appointment, you don't even
know which one is the right contact, save for the order in which they are in
as it's the same as the address cards view.
For example you have a chain of stores to deliver to, we'll use McDonalds
for example. In your contacts you'll have one contact entry per address and
its easy to see all the addresses in the address card view so no problem
there, but since the selection boxes don't and can't show addresses the list
is almost useless.
Another example; you know that bob bingo works at McDonald's and you have an
appointment to see him, you'd like to just search and find bob's name on the
list but he isn't on the list since for other reasons, it was better to file
all your McD's by company name. Even if you file as McDonalds (bingo, bob) or
McDonalds (bob bingo) you still can only search by McDonalds and scroll until
you find it. At least that still works, unless you forget the company name or
whatever.
The point is, even if it would be a little difficult, it would be very
useful to customize, or at least add fields, to those pick lists.
The address book list is greatly improved in 2007, but wherever you click
the "Contacts..." button its still the same frustration.
"Mathieu_598" wrote:
Ok but it's boring to go back to the contact folder. The existing link on
your new message is made to have direct access to our contacts without going
back to contact folder... they just forgort to let us the option to customize
it.
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
Outlook has never provided customization of either the Outlook Address Book
nor the autocompletion cache. They are not the preferred venues for
searching for Contacts. The Contacts Folder is and it can be customized as
much as you want.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Mathieu_598" wrote in message
...
Using office outlook 2003 SP2 (11.6568.6568) on windowx XP Pro
When you open a new message and you click on "A..." in french, i presume
"To..." in english, it opens the window with all your contacts. In this
window you find the following columns: Name - Full Name - Email address -
Address Type and tht's all.
My first suggestion would be to allow us to classify "A to Z" or "Z to A"
in
any column just by clicking on the column header and to be able to add or
to
delete columns like we can do in our inbox / outbox / sent items
(especially
one...see my second suggestion below).
My second suggestion would be to add a column named "organisation name".
When you classify your contacts by company name and you find it classify
by
name when you are sending an email it's really not easy to find the
correct
email address because sometimes you don't remmember the name of the
contact
in the company. It's easier to remmember the name of the company thant to
remmember the name of all the contacts in this company. And professionnaly
speaking i found the classification by company name very useful.
I was even surprised not to find such an option in this window. I am sure
you can arrange this easily.
Awaiting your earliest feedback,
Kind Regards
Mathieu
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