Address Book - Fax #?

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Joe

When I create an e-mail and open the address book to
select recipients, the address book is listing BOTH the e-
mail entry AND the Bus Fax Entry, which naturally is
totally useless when sending an e-mail. I'm having to
sort through DOUBLE the number of entries all the time.
How do I tell Outlook to only include the e-mail entry in
the Address Book? Thanks for any help you can give me.
 
Outlook considers fax numbers to be valid electronic addresses, since there
are many client- and server-based components that can use such addresses.

One method to hide fax numbers from the address book is to prefix the fax
number with one or more letters (maybe B for business fax, H for home, O for
other). If the fax number begins with a letter, Outlook won't show it in the
address book. This definitely works in Outlook 2000 and 2002.

At http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook_Solutions.htm, you'll find a Hide
Fax Numbers utility that adds a text prefix to fax numbers for all your
contacts and removes it when you really do need to use a fax number in an
Outlook message.

Another way to avoid avoid having fax numbers appear in the address book is
simply not to enter data in the fax fields. Put fax numbers in some other
(non-phone) fields.
 
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