"Contact" versus "Home Contacts"

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Noel Sant

I have Outlook 2003. I have one contacts folder called "Contacts". When I
open individual contacts, they show in one of two formats:
1. Some have "<contact name> - Contact" in the title bar. I can add pictures
to these. The whole layout looks much cleaner. I think these may have come
from a previous version of Outlook.
2. The others have "<contact name> - Home Contacts" in the title bar. I
cannot add pictures to these. When I click on Actions/Add picture, nothing
happens. If I create a new contact it is one of these.

Does anyone know why this is, and more importantly how I can convert my type
2 contacts to type 1, please?

TIA, Noël Sant
 
I have one email account, POP/SMTP. Is that what you meant?

Pressing Ctrl+6 does nothing for me, but I only have one contact folder in
Outlook (or anywhere else, for that matter).

Diane Poremsky said:
What type of email accounts do you use?
If you press Ctrl+6, how many contacts folders can you find?

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Noel Sant said:
I have Outlook 2003. I have one contacts folder called "Contacts". When I
open individual contacts, they show in one of two formats:
1. Some have "<contact name> - Contact" in the title bar. I can add
pictures to these. The whole layout looks much cleaner. I think these may
have come from a previous version of Outlook.
2. The others have "<contact name> - Home Contacts" in the title bar. I
cannot add pictures to these. When I click on Actions/Add picture,
nothing happens. If I create a new contact it is one of these.

Does anyone know why this is, and more importantly how I can convert my
type 2 contacts to type 1, please?

TIA, Noël Sant
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right click on the contacts folder and choose properties. what form is set
as the default?

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Noel Sant said:
I have one email account, POP/SMTP. Is that what you meant?

Pressing Ctrl+6 does nothing for me, but I only have one contact folder in
Outlook (or anywhere else, for that matter).

Diane Poremsky said:
What type of email accounts do you use?
If you press Ctrl+6, how many contacts folders can you find?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



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Noel Sant said:
I have Outlook 2003. I have one contacts folder called "Contacts". When
I open individual contacts, they show in one of two formats:
1. Some have "<contact name> - Contact" in the title bar. I can add
pictures to these. The whole layout looks much cleaner. I think these
may have come from a previous version of Outlook.
2. The others have "<contact name> - Home Contacts" in the title bar. I
cannot add pictures to these. When I click on Actions/Add picture,
nothing happens. If I create a new contact it is one of these.

Does anyone know why this is, and more importantly how I can convert my
type 2 contacts to type 1, please?

TIA, Noël Sant
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..Diane, you are brilliant! IN properties, under the forms tab, it has "Home
Contacts" highlighted, then "My form". Under the general tab, it said "When
posting to this folder use: Home Contacts."

I have changed this to "...use: Contact" (it put in "IPM.Contact") and now
NEW contacts come up as I want. All I need now is to be able to change the
old Home-Contacts contacts to Contact ones (if you see what I mean.)
Preferably not individually!

Would it be sufficient, under the forms tab, simply to delete "Home
Contacts", or would I then lose al those contacts?

Diane Poremsky said:
right click on the contacts folder and choose properties. what form is set
as the default?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



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Noel Sant said:
I have one email account, POP/SMTP. Is that what you meant?

Pressing Ctrl+6 does nothing for me, but I only have one contact folder
in Outlook (or anywhere else, for that matter).

Diane Poremsky said:
What type of email accounts do you use?
If you press Ctrl+6, how many contacts folders can you find?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



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I have Outlook 2003. I have one contacts folder called "Contacts". When
I open individual contacts, they show in one of two formats:
1. Some have "<contact name> - Contact" in the title bar. I can add
pictures to these. The whole layout looks much cleaner. I think these
may have come from a previous version of Outlook.
2. The others have "<contact name> - Home Contacts" in the title bar. I
cannot add pictures to these. When I click on Actions/Add picture,
nothing happens. If I create a new contact it is one of these.

Does anyone know why this is, and more importantly how I can convert my
type 2 contacts to type 1, please?

TIA, Noël Sant
Click to expand...
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Click to expand...
 
you won't lose the contacts if you delete the form but you should change
them to the default form first to keep outlook from complaining - get
docmessageclass to do that - see
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20040525.htm for a link.

--
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Noel Sant said:
.Diane, you are brilliant! IN properties, under the forms tab, it has
"Home Contacts" highlighted, then "My form". Under the general tab, it
said "When posting to this folder use: Home Contacts."

I have changed this to "...use: Contact" (it put in "IPM.Contact") and now
NEW contacts come up as I want. All I need now is to be able to change the
old Home-Contacts contacts to Contact ones (if you see what I mean.)
Preferably not individually!

Would it be sufficient, under the forms tab, simply to delete "Home
Contacts", or would I then lose al those contacts?

Diane Poremsky said:
right click on the contacts folder and choose properties. what form is
set as the default?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



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Noel Sant said:
I have one email account, POP/SMTP. Is that what you meant?

Pressing Ctrl+6 does nothing for me, but I only have one contact folder
in Outlook (or anywhere else, for that matter).

What type of email accounts do you use?
If you press Ctrl+6, how many contacts folders can you find?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



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I have Outlook 2003. I have one contacts folder called "Contacts".
When I open individual contacts, they show in one of two formats:
1. Some have "<contact name> - Contact" in the title bar. I can add
pictures to these. The whole layout looks much cleaner. I think these
may have come from a previous version of Outlook.
2. The others have "<contact name> - Home Contacts" in the title bar.
I cannot add pictures to these. When I click on Actions/Add picture,
nothing happens. If I create a new contact it is one of these.

Does anyone know why this is, and more importantly how I can convert
my type 2 contacts to type 1, please?

TIA, Noël Sant
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Worked a treat. Thanks.

Diane Poremsky said:
you won't lose the contacts if you delete the form but you should change
them to the default form first to keep outlook from complaining - get
docmessageclass to do that - see
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20040525.htm for a link.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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mailto:[email protected]

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Noel Sant said:
.Diane, you are brilliant! IN properties, under the forms tab, it has
"Home Contacts" highlighted, then "My form". Under the general tab, it
said "When posting to this folder use: Home Contacts."

I have changed this to "...use: Contact" (it put in "IPM.Contact") and
now NEW contacts come up as I want. All I need now is to be able to
change the old Home-Contacts contacts to Contact ones (if you see what I
mean.) Preferably not individually!

Would it be sufficient, under the forms tab, simply to delete "Home
Contacts", or would I then lose al those contacts?

Diane Poremsky said:
right click on the contacts folder and choose properties. what form is
set as the default?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



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I have one email account, POP/SMTP. Is that what you meant?

Pressing Ctrl+6 does nothing for me, but I only have one contact folder
in Outlook (or anywhere else, for that matter).

What type of email accounts do you use?
If you press Ctrl+6, how many contacts folders can you find?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/



Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
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I have Outlook 2003. I have one contacts folder called "Contacts".
When I open individual contacts, they show in one of two formats:
1. Some have "<contact name> - Contact" in the title bar. I can add
pictures to these. The whole layout looks much cleaner. I think these
may have come from a previous version of Outlook.
2. The others have "<contact name> - Home Contacts" in the title bar.
I cannot add pictures to these. When I click on Actions/Add picture,
nothing happens. If I create a new contact it is one of these.

Does anyone know why this is, and more importantly how I can convert
my type 2 contacts to type 1, please?

TIA, Noël Sant
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