Address Book vs Contacts (again).

26 Mar 2009 6:35 PM

Denzil Hathway

Using Vista Home Premium and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (12.0.6316.5000)
Sp1.

The structure of Address Books versus Contacts in Outlook has always been a
mystery to me and will continue to be forever it seems. I hesitate to raise
the topic again because it has been raised here so many times.

I write today to ask why my Contacts listing is different when I refer to it
using the "address book" icon at the top of an Outlook screen and reference
it using the Contacts button (for me, bottom left hand side my Navigation
Pane).

The "Contacts button" version, synched with my my cell phone, is generally
correct while the "addressbook icon" version has many entries missing. I can
actually enter a new contact and immediately not find it using the rapid
"icon" lookup but will find it it in "Contacts."

What's going on? More importantly, what can I do about it? Regards, Denzil.

26 Mar 2009 6:47 PM

Gordon

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"Denzil Hathway" <hath***@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Oybg4GkrJHA.6040@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Using Vista Home Premium and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
> (12.0.6316.5000) Sp1.
>
> The structure of Address Books versus Contacts in Outlook has always been
> a mystery to me and will continue to be forever it seems. I hesitate to
> raise the topic again because it has been raised here so many times.
>
> I write today to ask why my Contacts listing is different when I refer to
> it using the "address book" icon at the top of an Outlook screen and
> reference it using the Contacts button (for me, bottom left hand side my
> Navigation Pane).
>
> The "Contacts button" version, synched with my my cell phone, is generally
> correct while the "addressbook icon" version has many entries missing. I
> can actually enter a new contact and immediately not find it using the
> rapid "icon" lookup but will find it it in "Contacts."
>
> What's going on? More importantly, what can I do about it? Regards,
> Denzil.

The "addressbook" view that appears when you click on the "To" button in a
new email message window only contains those contacts for which you have an
electronic address, i.e. either an email address or a fax number. Those with
just a plain telephone number will not appear.

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26 Mar 2009 7:38 PM

DL

The Address Book is a filtered View of Contacts and only shows those that
have an electronic address / # eg email address, fax number

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"Denzil Hathway" <hath***@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Oybg4GkrJHA.6040@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Using Vista Home Premium and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
> (12.0.6316.5000) Sp1.
>
> The structure of Address Books versus Contacts in Outlook has always been
> a mystery to me and will continue to be forever it seems. I hesitate to
> raise the topic again because it has been raised here so many times.
>
> I write today to ask why my Contacts listing is different when I refer to
> it using the "address book" icon at the top of an Outlook screen and
> reference it using the Contacts button (for me, bottom left hand side my
> Navigation Pane).
>
> The "Contacts button" version, synched with my my cell phone, is generally
> correct while the "addressbook icon" version has many entries missing. I
> can actually enter a new contact and immediately not find it using the
> rapid "icon" lookup but will find it it in "Contacts."
>
> What's going on? More importantly, what can I do about it? Regards,
> Denzil.

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