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Old September 14th 06, 09:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
DCL
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In Outlook 2003, after opening the Contacts folder, I used to be able to just
type a letter such as "T" and it would take me to the first occurance of any
contacts starting with that letter. Now, for some reason, that no longer
works. I have to click on whichever tab that includes the letter I want.
Was this changed in one of the updates recently, or am I just missing a
setting somewhere?

Thank you in advance for any help with this.
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Old September 14th 06, 11:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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Default Contact selection

Turn off the default "Outlook Today" view of your data file. It prevents
screen focus when you open a folder.
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Russ Valentine
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"DCL" wrote in message
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In Outlook 2003, after opening the Contacts folder, I used to be able to
just
type a letter such as "T" and it would take me to the first occurance of
any
contacts starting with that letter. Now, for some reason, that no longer
works. I have to click on whichever tab that includes the letter I want.
Was this changed in one of the updates recently, or am I just missing a
setting somewhere?

Thank you in advance for any help with this.


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Old September 15th 06, 01:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
DCL
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Default Contact selection

Russ, thank you for the fast response, and correct as well. I did not even
connect the two things together, which I probably should have since it was
only recently that I started using the Outlook Today view, and recent changes
are what I know should be considered first. And I even looked right at it in
options while going through them to see if I could find something that
changed

Thank you again,

Dale.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Turn off the default "Outlook Today" view of your data file. It prevents
screen focus when you open a folder.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

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Old September 15th 06, 02:07 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]
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There is no reason you should have been expected to connect your use of
Outlook Today to this problem. This is a bug, pure and simple, that
Microsoft has not seen fit to fix or even acknowledge.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"DCL" wrote in message
...
Russ, thank you for the fast response, and correct as well. I did not even
connect the two things together, which I probably should have since it was
only recently that I started using the Outlook Today view, and recent
changes
are what I know should be considered first. And I even looked right at it
in
options while going through them to see if I could find something that
changed

Thank you again,

Dale.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Turn off the default "Outlook Today" view of your data file. It prevents
screen focus when you open a folder.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]


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Old September 15th 06, 02:49 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
DCL
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It does seem kind of strange someone would program it to do this on purpose,
since being able to just hit a letter is a lot quicker way to get where you
want to be.

I'd send Microsoft a suggestion to change it, but they still have not
followed up on my suggestion from back sometime around 1996 or 97 that it
would be nice if they would incorporate the ability to add tasks to the
Calendar, and have uncompleted ones move forward to the current day like
Lotus Organizer did. Oh well, I've been using Outlook and Office too many
years now to give it up over the little things.

Dale.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

There is no reason you should have been expected to connect your use of
Outlook Today to this problem. This is a bug, pure and simple, that
Microsoft has not seen fit to fix or even acknowledge.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"DCL" wrote in message
...
Russ, thank you for the fast response, and correct as well. I did not even
connect the two things together, which I probably should have since it was
only recently that I started using the Outlook Today view, and recent
changes
are what I know should be considered first. And I even looked right at it
in
options while going through them to see if I could find something that
changed

Thank you again,

Dale.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Turn off the default "Outlook Today" view of your data file. It prevents
screen focus when you open a folder.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]


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Old September 15th 06, 03:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.contacts
Brian Tillman
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Default Contact selection

DCL wrote:

In Outlook 2003, after opening the Contacts folder, I used to be able
to just type a letter such as "T" and it would take me to the first
occurance of any contacts starting with that letter. Now, for some
reason, that no longer works. I have to click on whichever tab that
includes the letter I want. Was this changed in one of the updates
recently, or am I just missing a setting somewhere?


A work-around is to click on any contact to initiate focus, then type the
letter.
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Brian Tillman

 




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