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Old September 9th 06, 08:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Ray
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Default Contacts and "Display As"

I'm assuming that the "Display As" line in the contacts page that you fill
out is to show that name or nickname in the from line of an incoming email.
For some reason it does not seem to work for all my contacts. Could someone
point me in the right direction.

I'm running winXP and outlook 2003.

Thanks in advance,

Ray


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Old September 9th 06, 12:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Contacts and "Display As"

Perhaps, if you posted an actual question that says what isn't working, your
mail account type and how you are entering recipient information. The "Email
Display As" field does not affect the From: field. That is determined by how
you set up your mail account.
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Russ Valentine
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"Ray" wrote in message
...
I'm assuming that the "Display As" line in the contacts page that you fill
out is to show that name or nickname in the from line of an incoming
email. For some reason it does not seem to work for all my contacts. Could
someone point me in the right direction.

I'm running winXP and outlook 2003.

Thanks in advance,

Ray



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Old September 10th 06, 08:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Contacts and "Display As"

The sender's address is determined by the sender, not the recipient.
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"Ray" wrote in message
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Okay let me try this again...If I have someone's email address in my
contacts, eg. ... how can I display on the incoming
email from this person to show his real name eg., Tom Jones...or Dick and
Jane ??? Isn't the line for "display as" the reason for this ?? I receive
emails from other people that shows their names and not their email
addresses.

Sorry for not being more specific...
Ray

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Perhaps, if you posted an actual question that says what isn't working,
your mail account type and how you are entering recipient information.
The "Email Display As" field does not affect the From: field. That is
determined by how you set up your mail account.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Ray" wrote in message
...
I'm assuming that the "Display As" line in the contacts page that you
fill out is to show that name or nickname in the from line of an
incoming email. For some reason it does not seem to work for all my
contacts. Could someone point me in the right direction.

I'm running winXP and outlook 2003.

Thanks in advance,

Ray







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Old September 11th 06, 01:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Ray
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Default Contacts and "Display As"

Thanks Russ !!


"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
The sender's address is determined by the sender, not the recipient.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Ray" wrote in message
...
Okay let me try this again...If I have someone's email address in my
contacts, eg. ... how can I display on the incoming
email from this person to show his real name eg., Tom Jones...or Dick and
Jane ??? Isn't the line for "display as" the reason for this ?? I
receive emails from other people that shows their names and not their
email addresses.

Sorry for not being more specific...
Ray

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
Perhaps, if you posted an actual question that says what isn't working,
your mail account type and how you are entering recipient information.
The "Email Display As" field does not affect the From: field. That is
determined by how you set up your mail account.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Ray" wrote in message
...
I'm assuming that the "Display As" line in the contacts page that you
fill out is to show that name or nickname in the from line of an
incoming email. For some reason it does not seem to work for all my
contacts. Could someone point me in the right direction.

I'm running winXP and outlook 2003.

Thanks in advance,

Ray









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Old September 9th 06, 04:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Contacts and "Display As"

No, that's not what it's for at all. It's to show a display name on messages that you **send** not receive.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Ray" wrote in message ...
I'm assuming that the "Display As" line in the contacts page that you fill
out is to show that name or nickname in the from line of an incoming email.
For some reason it does not seem to work for all my contacts. Could someone
point me in the right direction.

I'm running winXP and outlook 2003.

Thanks in advance,

Ray


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Old November 22nd 06, 06:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Jeanne M
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Default Contacts and "Display As"

Sue: it ALSO is used by Word 2003 in creating envelopes. This makes the
automatic insertion of the email address even MORE problematic, as I do not
want to print mailing labels and evenlopes with email addresses on them.

Why hasn't Microsoft fixed this to allow us to CHOSE the "display as"
characteristics of our Contacts? Where do we go to demand this? There are
hundreds of posts about this dating back to teh Office 2003 change that did
this....

Jeanne M

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

No, that's not what it's for at all. It's to show a display name on messages that you **send** not receive.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Ray" wrote in message ...
I'm assuming that the "Display As" line in the contacts page that you fill
out is to show that name or nickname in the from line of an incoming email.
For some reason it does not seem to work for all my contacts. Could someone
point me in the right direction.

I'm running winXP and outlook 2003.

Thanks in advance,

Ray



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Old November 23rd 06, 12:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Contacts and "Display As"

Huh? I can choose to use whatever Display As text that I want in any contact, simply by typing in that text. There's also nothing to prevent you from using the Full Name for envelopes.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Jeanne M" wrote in message ...
Sue: it ALSO is used by Word 2003 in creating envelopes. This makes the
automatic insertion of the email address even MORE problematic, as I do not
want to print mailing labels and evenlopes with email addresses on them.

Why hasn't Microsoft fixed this to allow us to CHOSE the "display as"
characteristics of our Contacts?


 




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