Outlook.....in all of its versions.....was supposed to be the most
sophisticated of the commercially available e-mail programs. In both 2002
and 2003 Outlook benefitted from a great deal of work that had been done by
the original Outlook Express Team....their work had some great features that
almost no-one who used Outlook...or who ran help desks....knew existed.

But today, with Outlook 2007, I still haven't found a way for it to
automatically add the people I correspond with to my contacts/address book.
I must, in a very cumbersome fashion, add each individually. Of course I can
go to Earthlink, receive a message, and have Earthlink (whose e-mail
interface looks and acts suspiciously like just the e-mail part of Outlook)
ask me if I want that recipient saved to my address book. If Earthlink can
manage this, it should be too complicated to be a basic feature of Outlook.

We use Outlook as our primary application. It has amazing (underutilized)
database capabilities including such things as version controls on documents
that no tech I've ever spoken with knew was buried inside it. This is a
powerful application so let's get the basics fixed.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Roger wrote:

With Outlook Express under Windows98 I could click on recipients of
an email I also received and there was an option to add all
recipients to my Address Book at one time. A couple of clicks did
it; not a couple of hundred required for a recipient list of 30
people.

The option you describe has never been a part of Outlook. Outlook and
Outlook Express are two different applications, so why should they behave in
a similar fashion? That would be like claiming technology has regressed
because you installed Word and it doesn't allow the same options that, say,
Notepad offers.
--
Brian Tillman

Tish wrote:

Outlook.....in all of its versions.....was supposed to be the most
sophisticated of the commercially available e-mail programs. In both
2002 and 2003 Outlook benefitted from a great deal of work that had
been done by the original Outlook Express Team....their work had some
great features that almost no-one who used Outlook...or who ran help
desks....knew existed.

If you know of any, please list them.

But today, with Outlook 2007, I still haven't found a way for it to
automatically add the people I correspond with to my contacts/address
book. I must, in a very cumbersome fashion, add each individually.

The only versions of Outlook that did this were Outlook 98 and 2000 using
Internet Mail Only mode and then only because they were using the Outlook
Express address book.

See this: http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/autoaddrecip.htm
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

there are 3rd party add-ins available if you require every address saved.
It's not a feature in outlook because the bulk of users don't need *every*
address saved and it was the source of a lot of support calls - people
discovered they had tons of addresses in their contacts that they didn't
knowing add and didn't want as contacts.

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts_entry.asp

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
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"Tish" wrote in message
...
Outlook.....in all of its versions.....was supposed to be the most
sophisticated of the commercially available e-mail programs. In both 2002
and 2003 Outlook benefitted from a great deal of work that had been done
by
the original Outlook Express Team....their work had some great features
that
almost no-one who used Outlook...or who ran help desks....knew existed.

But today, with Outlook 2007, I still haven't found a way for it to
automatically add the people I correspond with to my contacts/address
book.
I must, in a very cumbersome fashion, add each individually. Of course I
can
go to Earthlink, receive a message, and have Earthlink (whose e-mail
interface looks and acts suspiciously like just the e-mail part of
Outlook)
ask me if I want that recipient saved to my address book. If Earthlink
can
manage this, it should be too complicated to be a basic feature of
Outlook.

We use Outlook as our primary application. It has amazing (underutilized)
database capabilities including such things as version controls on
documents
that no tech I've ever spoken with knew was buried inside it. This is a
powerful application so let's get the basics fixed.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Roger wrote:

With Outlook Express under Windows98 I could click on recipients of
an email I also received and there was an option to add all
recipients to my Address Book at one time. A couple of clicks did
it; not a couple of hundred required for a recipient list of 30
people.

The option you describe has never been a part of Outlook. Outlook and
Outlook Express are two different applications, so why should they behave
in
a similar fashion? That would be like claiming technology has regressed
because you installed Word and it doesn't allow the same options that,
say,
Notepad offers.
--
Brian Tillman

Dianne - I don't think he was originally asking to save "every
address"....just every address on a specific e-mail. And he was asking that
it be an option, not automatic which everyone did find drove them nuts. Even
the free services have figured that out now. But it would be a nice feature
(and may exist with some of us not having yet discovered how to use it) for
adding several names in the same way that Earthlink.net gives you a list of
the names that were on an e-mail and asks you to check individually if you
want them added to your mailbox.

"Diane Poremsky" wrote:

there are 3rd party add-ins available if you require every address saved.
It's not a feature in outlook because the bulk of users don't need *every*
address saved and it was the source of a lot of support calls - people
discovered they had tons of addresses in their contacts that they didn't
knowing add and didn't want as contacts.

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts_entry.asp

--

"Tish" wrote in message
...
Outlook.....in all of its versions.....was supposed to be the most
sophisticated of the commercially available e-mail programs. In both 2002
and 2003 Outlook benefitted from a great deal of work that had been done
by
the original Outlook Express Team....their work had some great features
that
almost no-one who used Outlook...or who ran help desks....knew existed.

But today, with Outlook 2007, I still haven't found a way for it to
automatically add the people I correspond with to my contacts/address
book.
I must, in a very cumbersome fashion, add each individually. Of course I
can
go to Earthlink, receive a message, and have Earthlink (whose e-mail
interface looks and acts suspiciously like just the e-mail part of
Outlook)
ask me if I want that recipient saved to my address book. If Earthlink
can
manage this, it should be too complicated to be a basic feature of
Outlook.

We use Outlook as our primary application. It has amazing (underutilized)
database capabilities including such things as version controls on
documents
that no tech I've ever spoken with knew was buried inside it. This is a
powerful application so let's get the basics fixed.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Roger wrote:

With Outlook Express under Windows98 I could click on recipients of
an email I also received and there was an option to add all
recipients to my Address Book at one time. A couple of clicks did
it; not a couple of hundred required for a recipient list of 30
people.

The option you describe has never been a part of Outlook. Outlook and
Outlook Express are two different applications, so why should they behave
in
a similar fashion? That would be like claiming technology has regressed
because you installed Word and it doesn't allow the same options that,
say,
Notepad offers.
--
Brian Tillman