Forwarding Contacts - coming across as email files

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I am trying to Forward Contacts from one Outlook to another via email. On
the sending computer - the contacts attach to the email as "contact" files.
When I receive the email on the 2nd computer, the attachments are now
"emails" instead of contact type files. I have been doing this for over a
year with these two computers, what has changed?
 
eathayer said:
I am trying to Forward Contacts from one Outlook to another via
email. On the sending computer - the contacts attach to the email as
"contact" files. When I receive the email on the 2nd computer, the
attachments are now "emails" instead of contact type files. I have
been doing this for over a year with these two computers, what has
changed?
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Sounds like the format of the message being sent has been changed on the
sender's Outlook.
 
I usually forward these contacts from two computers to mine, and I am having
the same issue with both. When I go look in the sent folder - the
attachments are contact files, but when I receive them on my computer they
are now email files. Is there a way to change the formating of how my
computer receives them?
 
Make sure that the format for the message is rich-text, not plain text or HTML, and that you've double-clicked the person's address and marked it to send in Outlook rich-text format.

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

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
eathayer said:
I usually forward these contacts from two computers to mine, and I am
having the same issue with both. When I go look in the sent folder -
the attachments are contact files, but when I receive them on my
computer they are now email files. Is there a way to change the
formating of how my computer receives them?
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Like I said, it's a SENDER issue. Since you are doing the sending, you must
make sure that you are sending them in RIch Text format. The two places to
check that are Tools>Options>Mail Format and the Properties dialogue of the
E-mail address of the recipient contact record you're using.
 
I tried that, still the same result?!?!

Sue Mosher said:
Make sure that the format for the message is rich-text, not plain text or HTML, and that you've double-clicked the person's address and marked it to send in Outlook rich-text format.

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

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
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Ask the recipient what format they're receiving the message in -- plain text, RTF, or HTML.

Is Exchange your mail server?

Have you tried using the Forward as vCard command instead?

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

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I am doing the sending and receiving (from my bosses' computers to mine). I
receive the contacts as email type attachments, but I don't know how to know
what type of text it is.

Not on an Exchange serve.

I have tried vCard - same result.
 
You should be able to look at the title bar of an open message to see what format the message is in.

Check your settings in Tools | Options | Mail Format | Internet Format. The Outlook Rich Text option should be set to keep the format as rich-text.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Does the recipient get a rich-text format message?

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

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
No, HTML, but I have changed the settings.

Sue Mosher said:
Does the recipient get a rich-text format message?

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

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
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So were you describing what happened before you changed the settings or after?

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

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