I'm just explaining what is. The Outlook Address Book and autocompletion
cache are not the preferred venue for searching. Most of us have migrated
away from them for the reasons I've stated. It's fine to keep posting your
wishes. I'm just telling you which ones are realistic.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"HangedMan" wrote in message
...
Admittedly I’m sure it is hard because I can’t see any other reason. There
is
no auto complete for the “select contact” list when you click on the
“Contacts…” button. It’s just a long, scroll list view of your contacts,
and
the visible fields can’t be changed, so really you’re forced to modify the
way you would otherwise “file as” just to get moderately useful use of the
list.
If you’re searching through the address book for an email address Auto
complete only works for the name field (it won’t look in the other fields
its
displaying). If you switch from “Name only” to “More columns” Auto
complete
no longer works, you have to click the go button but at least it is
possible
now even though you can’t choose the search field or sort there either.
For
example if you have 500 entries with McDonalds in the name but only one
entry
with McDonalds in the email address you can’t use that knowledge to define
your filter or sort by the email field.
Of course, if they waited until the product was perfect we wouldn't have a
product to use, and I guess they have to give us reasons to buy the next
upgrade.
"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
Apparently, it's much harder than you think. The Outlook Address Book is
a
legacy service that relies on Extended MAPI and as such is not easy to
customize. Accordingly, Outlook development has deprecated this address
book
interface in favor of Contact Folders and autocompletion for search
functions.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Mathieu_598" wrote in message
...
It should not be very difficult for microsoft to change this and to
customize
this contact list...
"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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