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Old April 1st 06, 12:31 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Phil_R
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Default Problem with Company names starting with "LA" or "LE"

I have the same problem with company names that begin with "El". Thanks for
providing instructions for fixing the problem.

"Karl Timmermans" wrote:

There are four words that cause the action you describe (at least the only
ones we've found so far) - these are

The, Le, La, El

This transposition only occurs when you initially "add" a new contact and
there's no way to turn that off that we're aware of BUT what you can do is
save your contact and then update the name field with the same value - no
transposition occurs when "changing" the company name. In your case since
you already are using VBA - just need to check the name field and proceed
accordingly.

Karl

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Karl Timmermans - The Claxton Group
ContactGenie - Importer 1.3 / DataPorter 2.0
"Power contact importers for MS Outlook '2000/2003"
http://www.contactgenie.com

"Jeff" wrote in message
...
When I create a new contact in Outlook 2000, and enter in a company name
starting with "LA" or "LE", Outlook rewrites the company name and takes
the
"LA" or "LE" and moves it to the end of the company preceded by a comma.
I
assume it thinks "LA" or "LE" is the French equivalent of "The". In
reality,
the "LA" in these contacts stands for "Los Angeles" and I don't want this
to
happen. I am actually using a VBA script to import contact records from
my
Access 2000 database to a contacts folder in my Outlook PST when this
happens, so it would be a real pain to go back in and edit each of the
misnamed companies. Is there some way to simply turn this feature off?




 




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