fax numbers and email address both listed in contacts

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Abbott

I have Outlook XP on my laptop connecting to a MS Exchange
5.5 server. When I create a new email and click on
the "To" button to select a contact from one of the
contact folders in my mailbox, the users with both an
email address and a fax number are listed twice ( once for
the fax and once for the email). I used to have this in
Outlook 2000 as well, but now the contacts aren't even
labeled which is the fax and which is the email. Is there
a way to either have the (fax) or (email) displayed or to
not have the fax numbers displayed at all?
 
The standard behavior for the Outlook Address book is to display all
electronic addresses (both fax and e-mail). That behavior cannot be changed.
The only way to prevent the display of fax numbers is to store them in a
different field or to disguise them (e.g., precede them with an alpha
character) so that Outlook won't recognize them as phone numbers.
There are also a number of utilities available that can do this for you
automatically. Some are listed here:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/nofax.htm
 
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