Copy and paste Contacts as text not vCards

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How do you paste or insert contact info into an email or doc as text instead
of as a vCard? In previous versions (2002 for example) you could use the
Insert -> Item command, select your contact and the Text Only option and it
would insert it. Now in Outlook 2003 SP1 the Text Only option is disabled
(greyed out). Thus you get stuck with a vCard attachment. Any suggestions
 
Drag the contact from the Contacts folder to your Inbox folder. The message
that opens will contain the contact information in the body of the message.
 
Hi There,

I am finding that Outlook 2003 pastes a vcard as a .msg as opposed to the
old way as a .vcf. do you have any advice on why that is so and how to
remediate it back to the "good ole fashioned way"? Thank you.
 
I've never seen any "paste" function in any version of Outlook that would generate a .vcf file attachment.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Hi Sue,

Actually, my process was as follows:

- While in Contacts to Ctrl-C a contact object or more.
- When back in my email message content, I would CTRL-V the copied contact
objects.

The object would then appear as a .msg attachement. Under Office XP and
2000, I seem to recall that this action would still yeild a .vcf attachment.
Do you have any ideas on this? I sort of caught a MS KB on this at:

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/182083/en-us/

I am still reading this. Thank you.
 
I guess to be more specific, I am referring to tthe capabilities of OLE for
vCards. Thank you and I very much appreciate your work.

JP
 
That copy/paste process has always inserted an embedded item, which the receiving user would have seen as an .msg file. If you want to send an actual vCard .vcf file, you'll need to use the Forward as vCard or File | Save As command.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
The message states that I must first enter a valid email address for the
contact. I just want to post the text from that contact in the email body?
What am I doing wrong? Your message seems straight forward but it's not
working for me. Thank you.
 
Ms. Sue:
I have used Outlook 2000 for years, now I am on 2003 and want to be able to
insert a contact as an item in to a email as "TEXT" and show the "NOTES AREA"
of a contact. It does on 2000, not on 2003 though. Basically, anywhere there
was data in a Contact it would put it in as text into a email.
Barry HEston
 
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